| counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid |
| codes and bytes in the named |
| 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. |
| If the optional argument is present, |
| just the specified counts (lines, words, runes, broken |
| are selected by the letters |
| Otherwise, lines, words and bytes |
| The Unicode Standard has many blank characters scattered through it, |
| should have options to count suboptimal |
| and bytes that cannot occur in any |
