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Cisco Support Tools 1.0 User Guide How to Use the WC Utility 272
-c: Enable counting for characters.
If no files are given, standard input is read for characters.
Example:
wc file1 counts the lines, words, and characters in file1.
wc -w -c counts the words and characters from the standard input.
-?: Display program description.
Note: If the environment variable WC exists, its value is used to establish default
options.
See Also
For related information, see:
About Common Utilities