wc (Unix)

wc
Original authorsJoe Ossanna
(AT&T Bell Laboratories)
DevelopersVarious open-source and commercial developers
Initial releaseNovember 3, 1971 (1971-11-03)
Written inC
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, MSX-DOS, IBM i
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand
LicensePlan 9, Inferno: MIT
coreutils: GPL-3.0-or-later

wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and operating systems that are Unix-like. The program reads either standard input or a list of computer files and generates one or more of the following statistics: newline count, word count, and byte count. If a list of files is provided, both individual file and total statistics follow.

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