A detailed description of the WC command under Linux

Function Description: Calculates the number of words.

Syntax: WC [-clw][--help][--version][file ...]

Supplementary note: With the WC instruction we can calculate the number of bytes, words, or columns of a file, if no file name is specified, or if the given file is named "-", the WC instruction reads the data from the standard input device. Assuming that no parameters are given, the WC instruction displays the number of columns, words, and bytes

Parameter:-C displays only the number of bytes, i.e. the number of characters;

　　　　　　　- L displays only the number of columns;

-W displays only the number of words;

--help online Help;

--version Displays version information.

Example

Calculate The number of columns, words, and characters of a text file TopGun :

　　$ WC TopGun

A detailed description of the WC command under Linux