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wc --human-readable or --verbose

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 46346 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46346: wc --human-readable or --verbose
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:38:24 +0800

wc needs a --verbose option. Else one is forced to do:

$ file=e.html; echo $file:; for i in bytes chars lines words; do echo -en $i:\\t; wc --$i < $file; done
e.html:
bytes:  31655
chars:  29141
lines:  643
words:  1275

I mean sometimes we want to send the output to a real person, and
currently all wc makes is:

$ wc e.html
  643  1275 31655 e.html
$ file=e.html; for i in bytes chars lines words; do wc --$i < $file; done
31655
29141
643
1275

So there needs to be a --verbose or --human-readable like du(1)... oops
I don't mean saying 234M... yet.

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