WinUtils - wc

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

wc [-clwR] file...

DESCRIPTION

c reads one or more input files and writes the number of lines, words, and characters in each file to the standard output. If more than one file is supplied, then a total count for all the files is also written. If no options are supplied, then wc defaults to all (-clw).

wc considers a word to be a string of characters delimited by white space (space, tab, newline, etc.).

OPERANDS

EXAMPLES

   wc text.txt

will print the count of characters, lines, words in the file text.txt.

   wc -l -c *.cpp *.h

will print the count of characters, and lines in all files with an extension .cpp or .h.