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 NAME     
 SYNOPSIS     
 |  |  |  | wc [ −lwrbc ] [ file ... ] 
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 DESCRIPTION     
 |  |  |  | Wc counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid UTF codes
    and bytes in the named 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. 
    
    
    If the optional argument is present, just the specified counts
    (lines, words, runes, broken UTF codes or bytes) are selected
    by the letters l, w, r, b, or c. Otherwise, lines, words and bytes
    (−lwc) are reported. 
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 SOURCE     
 BUGS     
 |  |  |  | The Unicode Standard has many blank characters scattered through
    it, but wc looks for only ASCII space, tab and newline. 
    
    
    Wc should have options to count suboptimal UTF codes and bytes
    that cannot occur in any UTF code. 
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