| .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 \*9/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. |
