JXTA in a Nutshell

Name

wc — Counts the number of lines, words, and characters in an object

Synopsis

wc [-c -l -w] [objectName]

Description

wc counts the number of newlines, whitespace-separated words, and/or characters in the given shell object, or in the standard input pipe if no object is specified. It writes one line of counts to the output pipe. The counts are written in this order: lines, words, characters. If no options are given, wc writes all three counts.

If no object is specified on the command line, wc will read from stdin. If stdin is the console, you may type in lines of text, concluding with a line that has a “.” all by itself.

Options

-c

Writes the character count

-l

Writes the line count

-w

Writes the word count

Examples

JXTA>wc myfile
18      52     675
JXTA>cat myfile | wc -w
52

The first example displays the number of lines, words, and characters in myfile. The second displays only the number of lines.