bug#81405: wc: mention character counts in titles

P=C3=A1draig Brady <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

I couldn't think of a way to make it not sound wordy either. POSIX has
this [1]:

   wc - word, line, and byte or character count

But that sounds a little strange to me. I think it is the double
conjunctions, "and" and "or".

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[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/wc.html