bug#81405: wc: mention character counts in titles

Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:26:14 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13/07/2026 01:20, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> NAME
>         wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
>                                   ^character,

The above was trying to summarize the functionality and default mode.
If you add character, then you'd probably have to also mention the -L
functionality, i.e.:

wc - print newline, word, byte, character counts, or maximum line width

It's a bit wordy TBH, so I'm not sure.

cheers,
Padraig