Re: error in wc manpage

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:37:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> error in wc manpage:
>
>> wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
>
> should be:
>
> wc - print the number of lines, words, and bytes in files

Thanks for reporting that.
I've corrected that, as well as the similar problems in wc's --help
output and in the primary (texinfo) documentation.

Now it looks like this (note the lines/newlines change):

wc - print the number of newlines, words, and bytes in files