opensolaris man page for wc

wc(1)								   User Commands							     wc(1)

NAME
       wc - display a count of lines, words and characters in a file

SYNOPSIS
   /usr/bin/wc
       wc [-c | -m | -C] [-lw] [file]...

   ksh93
       wc [-c | -m | -C] [-lLqw] [file]...

DESCRIPTION
   /usr/bin/wc
       wc  reads one or more input files and, by default, writes the number of NEWLINE characters, words and bytes contained in each input file to
       the standard output.

       wc also writes a total count for all named files, if more than one input file is specified.

       wc considers a word to be a non-zero-length string of characters delimited by white space (for example, SPACE, TAB).  See  iswspace(3C)	or
       isspace(3C).

   ksh93
       The  wc	built-in  in ksh93 is associated with the /bin and /usr/bin paths. It is invoked when wc is executed without a pathname prefix and
       the pathname search finds a /bin/wc or /usr/bin/wc executable.

       wc reads one or more input files and, by default, for each file writes a line containing the number of NEWLINEs, words, and bytes contained
       in each file followed by the file name to standard output in that order. A word is defined to be a non-zero length string delimited by iss-
       pace(3C) characters.

       If more than one file is specified, wc writes a total count for all of the named files with total written instead of the file name.

       By default, wc writes all three counts. Options can specified so that only certain counts are written. The -c, -C, and -m options are mutu-
       ally exclusive.

       If  no file is specified, or if the file is -, wc reads from standard input and no filename is written to standard output. The start of the
       file is defined as the current offset.

       -c
       --bytes | chars

	   List the byte counts.

       -l
       --lines

	   List the line counts.

       -L
       --longest-line | max-line-length

	   List the longest line length.

       -m | C
       --multibyte-chars

	   List the character counts.

       -q
       --quiet

	   Suppress invalid multi-byte character warnings.

       -w
       --words

	   List the word counts.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -c    Counts bytes.

       -C    Same as -m.

       -l    Counts lines.

       -m    Counts characters.

       -w    Counts words delimited by white space characters or new line characters. Delimiting characters are Extended Unix Code  (EUC)  charac-
	     ters from any code set defined by iswspace().

       If no option is specified, the default is -lwc (counts lines, words, and bytes.)

OPERANDS
       The following operand is supported:

       file    A path name of an input file. If no file operands are specified, the standard input is used.

USAGE
       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of wc when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See  environ(5)	for  descriptions  of the following environment variables that affect the execution of wc: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS
       0     Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

   /usr/bin/wc
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Standard		     |See standards(5). 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

   ksh93
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |See below.		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       The ksh93 built-in binding to /bin and /usr/bin is Volatile. The built-in interfaces are Uncommitted.

SEE ALSO
       cksum(1), ksh93(1), isspace(3C), iswalpha(3C), iswspace(3C), setlocale(3C), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    13 Mar 2008 							     wc(1)