The WC command display count of a files (size, number of lines or words).
WC [/L] [/C] [/M] [/W] [files ...]
Print files counts and the associated total if several files have be specified.
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files ...: A liste of paths referring to the files which counts will be printed. This path may contain regular expression. If no files have been specified, Dos9 will show standard input counts.
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/L: Display the number of lines.
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/C: Display the number of bytes.
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/M: Counts characters on an utf-8 basis. If Dos9 have not been compiled with utf-8 support, this option is identical to /C.
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/W: Display the number of lines.
The counts are printed in the following order. If any count have been omited, these are not displayed by the command.
line_number word_number byte_number character_numbers file
If no switch was supplied to Dos9, the default command is:
WC /C files ...
Not available on cmd.exe. Available since 217.1.