bug#81405: wc: mention character counts in titles

On 13/07/2026 18:55, Collin Funk wrote:
> Pádraig 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".
> 
> Collin
> 
> [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/wc.html

It's a bit better than what we have,
so let's just go with the POSIX wording.

cheers,
Padraig