Confusing wc man page
Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes <[email protected]>
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The first line of the man page of wc(1) is confusing. It says: wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files The main text and the wc --help text says instead: Print line, word, and byte counts for each FILE, (...) It's the different order of lines/words/bytes that confused me. I think the first line should be changed to match the default output of the wc command (lines, words and bytes). The same applies to the info page, which starts with the text: `wc': Print byte, word, and line counts Regards, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes