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* src/wc.c (usage): As above, for --help. Reported by Vincent Lefevre in http://bugs.debian.org/395430. --- THANKS.in | 1 + src/wc.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in index 4bbee80..05d5922 100644 --- a/THANKS.in +++ b/THANKS.in @@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ Uwe H. Steinfeld [email protected] Vesselin Atanasov [email protected] Ville Skyttä [email protected] Vin Shelton [email protected] +Vincent Lefevre [email protected] Vineet Chadha [email protected] Vitali Lovich [email protected] Vitaly A. Ostanin [email protected] diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c index c4b5a91..43b46a3 100644 --- a/src/wc.c +++ b/src/wc.c @@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if\n\ more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -,\n\ read standard input. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters\n\ delimited by white space.\n\ +The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in\n\ +the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.\n\ -c, --bytes print the byte counts\n\ -m, --chars print the character counts\n\ -l, --lines print the newline counts\n\ -- 1.7.5.4
