Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Though one can guess the order, wc's documentation (info file, man page,
> and wc --help) should say in which order the values are printed:
> "wc -cmlLw FILE" outputs the numbers of newlines, words, characters,
> bytes and the longest line in this order.
Thanks for the report.
I've done this, upstream:
* coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in which
the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length".
Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index ee81792..3cf34af 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2950,7 +2950,8 @@ wc [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dots{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@do
given as an argument, it prints the file name following the counts. If
more than one @var{file} is given, @command{wc} prints a final line
containing the cumulative counts, with the file name @file{total}. The
-counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, characters, bytes.
+counts are printed in this order: newlines, words, characters, bytes,
+maximum line length.
Each count is printed right-justified in a field with at least one
space between fields so that the numbers and file names normally line
up nicely in columns. The width of the count fields varies depending
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