Suggestion for WC (wordcount)

[Benson Muite]

Hi,

The wordcount utility is very helpful. However, it has been suggested it 
could be more user friendly. Typical output is below:

$ wc src/wc.c
  926  3291 27625 src/wc.c

The units of measurement are not specified nor are the quantities, so 
the significance of the quantities is not clear. It is perhaps not 
appropriate to change the default output since many existing programs 
might rely on this, but might it be possible to add a separate flag to 
give information about the measured quantities, for example:

src/wc -t src/wc.c
Lines Words Bytes  Filename
  926  3291 27625 src/wc.c

A prototype implementation for this is available at:
https://github.com/bkmgit/coreutils/blob/master/src/wc.c

other suggestions for improvements are also welcome.