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Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by wodenokoto on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:27AM (#19991015)
I don't know.

From `man wc`

    WC(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    
    WC(1)

    NAME
         wc -- word, line, character, and byte count
When in actuality `wc` outputs lines, words bytes ...
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Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by monista on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:50PM (#19994672)
You probably referring to FreeBSD man, OpenBSD is slightly different: https://man.openbsd.org/wc.1
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Re:The Art of Command Line (2015) by wodenokoto on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:42PM (#19995215)
That still has the order wrong in the name section.

I mean, strictly speaking, the name field doesn’t document the output, but having those aligned makes the documentation much easier to read.

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