WC(1) WC(1)
NAME
wc - word count
SYNOPSIS
wc [ -lwrbc ] [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Wc counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid UTF
codes and bytes in the named files, or in the standard input
if no file is named. A word is a maximal string of charac-
ters delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines. The count of
runes includes invalid codes.
If the optional argument is present, just the specified
counts (lines, words, runes, broken UTF codes or bytes) are
selected by the letters l, w, r, b, or c. Otherwise, lines,
words and bytes (-lwc) are reported.
BUGS
Three-byte UTF codes higher than F7 65 B7 (the UTF encoding
of FFFF) are not counted among the illegals. Unicode has
many blank characters scattered through it, but wc looks for
only ASCII space, tab and newline.