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authorJames Youngman <jay@gnu.org>2010-04-08 10:58:52 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-04-08 23:53:12 +0200
commit0a9302e7f796bc59a17f85fed00f0350c8330e12 (patch)
tree3f111ab0f521d1dc65fd3f48839b3406e0eaa118 /src
parent9e66806e2869504567761d632c806005d51265ca (diff)
downloadcoreutils-0a9302e7f796bc59a17f85fed00f0350c8330e12.tar.xz
doc: make wc --help say how it defines a 'word'
* src/wc.c (usage): Add wc's definition of "word".
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diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c
index 0698ae117..6df7feddf 100644
--- a/src/wc.c
+++ b/src/wc.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
fputs (_("\
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if\n\
more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -,\n\
-read standard input.\n\
+read standard input. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters\n\
+delimited by white space.\n\
-c, --bytes print the byte counts\n\
-m, --chars print the character counts\n\
-l, --lines print the newline counts\n\