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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-08-23 15:50:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-08-23 15:52:02 +0200 |
| commit | f325d180cf444f399f4e31aab5cbe615f4b73e65 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d75ccd96f5a3c5dc7cae713539d26f75beb9faf /doc | |
| parent | bfe4a55520cee8234f7016d772ef387fe91ed279 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f325d180cf444f399f4e31aab5cbe615f4b73e65.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify wc -L documentation
* doc/coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Explain what the -L option
measures.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 229154281..3a04176c7 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3137,7 +3137,9 @@ prints both the byte counts and the word counts. With the @option{--max-line-length} option, @command{wc} prints the length of the longest line per file, and if there is more than one file it -prints the maximum (not the sum) of those lengths. +prints the maximum (not the sum) of those lengths. The line lengths here +are measured in screen columns, according to the current locale and +assuming tab positions in every 8th column. The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. |