.th WC I 5/31/77 .sh NAME wc \*- word count .sh SYNOPSIS .bd wc [ .bd \-l ] [ name ... ] .sh DESCRIPTION .it Wc counts lines and words in the named files, or in the standard input if no name appears. A word is a maximal string of printing characters delimited by spaces, tabs or newlines. All other characters are simply ignored. .s3 The .bd \-l flag suppresses all output except the line count.