GNU bug report logs - #34664
Mention wc default action on man page

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Package: coreutils;

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

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Mention wc default action on man page
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:47:07 +0800

INFO says
   By default, ‘wc’ prints three counts: the newline, words, and byte
and wc --help even more so.

Alas man wc doesn't say if what we are looking at is bytes or
characters, so kindly mention the default on the man page!
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 88 days ago.

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