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1.1       root        1: .TH WC 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: wc \- word count
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B wc
                      6: [
                      7: .B -lwrbc
                      8: ]
                      9: [
                     10: .I file ...
                     11: ]
                     12: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     13: .I Wc
                     14: counts lines, words, runes, syntactically-invalid
                     15: .SM UTF
                     16: codes and bytes in the named
                     17: .IR files ,
                     18: or in the standard input if no file is named.
                     19: A word is a maximal string of characters
                     20: delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines.
                     21: The count of runes includes invalid codes.
                     22: .PP
                     23: If the optional argument is present,
                     24: just the specified counts (lines, words, runes, broken
                     25: .SM UTF
                     26: codes or bytes)
                     27: are selected by the letters
                     28: .BR l ,
                     29: .BR w ,
                     30: .BR r ,
                     31: .BR b ,
                     32: or
                     33: .BR c .
                     34: Otherwise, lines, words and bytes
                     35: .RB ( -lwc )
                     36: are reported.
                     37: .SH SOURCE
                     38: .B /sys/src/cmd/wc.c
                     39: .SH BUGS
                     40: The Unicode Standard has many blank characters scattered through it,
                     41: but
                     42: .I wc
                     43: looks for only
                     44: .SM ASCII
                     45: space, tab and newline.
                     46: .br
                     47: .I Wc
                     48: should have options to count suboptimal
                     49: .SM UTF
                     50: codes
                     51: and bytes that cannot occur in any
                     52: .SM UTF
                     53: code.

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