Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > On 13/07/2026 01:20, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> NAME >> wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file >> ^character, > > The above was trying to summarize the functionality and default mode. > If you add character, then you'd probably have to also mention the -L > functionality, i.e.: > > wc - print newline, word, byte, character counts, or maximum line width > > It's a bit wordy TBH, so I'm not sure.
I couldn't think of a way to make it not sound wordy either. POSIX has this [1]: wc - word, line, and byte or character count But that sounds a little strange to me. I think it is the double conjunctions, "and" and "or". Collin [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/wc.html
