Re: wc needs --human-readable

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gentlemen, consulting the wc(1) man page, one sees no option to print
> things out in easy to understand English, etc.  E.g. it is only a
> computer whiz who can grok
> $ wc .emacs
>     712    2768   26633 .emacs

Really?  Does it qualify me as a whiz that I know that know every line
must have at least one word, and every word have at least one
character, and therefore nlines<=nwords<=nchars must always hold?

> why can't one get it to say which ones are lines, which ones are
> words, which ones are characters, if one insists.  

You can, in a way.  You can call 'wc -l' & friends to answer the
questions individually.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
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