GNU bug report logs - #23441
mention wc defaults more on man page

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 03:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 23441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>,
 23441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23441: mention wc defaults more on man page
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:20:30 -0600

close 23441
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2016-05-03 9:14 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On the man page mention if the default if no arguments
> are given is
> wc --bytes --words --lines

It seems your message was lost and not answered to in 2 years. Sorry 
about that.

The first line of 'man wc' says:
===
   wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
===

And similar wording is used through-out (and in 'wc --help').

As such, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread (and concrete patches
are very welcomed to improve wording).

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 211 days ago.

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