This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative source. This manual page documents the GNU version of wc . It prints one line of counts for each file, and if the file was given as an argument, it prints the filename following the counts. By default, wc prints all three counts.
Options can spec- ify that only certain counts be printed.
Print a usage message and exit with a status code indicating success. Print version information on standard output then exit.