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| author | Benoît Knecht <benoit.knecht@fsfe.org> | 2011-07-11 23:10:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-07-13 10:16:03 +0100 |
| commit | 2c558fd0d36162559574b7696fe485913cdd9066 (patch) | |
| tree | e66c011425b2910890f0978691af76c4594d8a87 /src | |
| parent | 7700751c5feff007a1b5054769d0e8d90638a62f (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-2c558fd0d36162559574b7696fe485913cdd9066.tar.xz | |
doc: note the order in which wc counts are printed
This information has already been added to the Texinfo manual, but was
missing from the --help output.
* src/wc.c (usage): As above, for --help.
Reported by Vincent Lefevre in http://bugs.debian.org/395430.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/wc.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ 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. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters\n\ delimited by white space.\n\ +The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in\n\ +the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.\n\ -c, --bytes print the byte counts\n\ -m, --chars print the character counts\n\ -l, --lines print the newline counts\n\ |