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.TH WC 1
.SH NAME
wc \- word count
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B wc
[
.B -lwrbc
]
[
.I file ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Wc
counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid
.SM UTF
codes and bytes in the named
.IR files ,
or in the standard input if no file is named.
A word is a maximal string of characters
delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines.
The count of runes includes invalid codes.
.PP
If the optional argument is present,
just the specified counts (lines, words, runes, broken
.SM UTF
codes or bytes)
are selected by the letters
.BR l ,
.BR w ,
.BR r ,
.BR b ,
or
.BR c .
Otherwise, lines, words and bytes
.RB ( -lwc )
are reported.
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/wc.c
.SH BUGS
The Unicode Standard has many blank characters scattered through it,
but
.I wc
looks for only
.SM ASCII
space, tab and newline.
.PP
.I Wc
should have options to count suboptimal
.SM UTF
codes
and bytes that cannot occur in any
.SM UTF
code.