NAME

SYNOPSIS

    wcls [options] 

DESCRIPTION

wcls is a front-end for what is effectively a ls/wc pipeline. The wc command performs the actual line counting. The ls command provides file lists and some selection and sorting functionality. Without any options, wcls will alphabetize its list of files, since that is how ls presents the files.

Several file-selection options are pass-throughs from wcls to ls. These allow selection capabilities provided by ls to be available to wcls. These options are -c, -f, -t, -u, and -U. Any precedence or overrides among these options are determined by ls.

The ls command has two file-sorting options whose functionality is provided directly by wcls. The functionality is implemented in wcls, but it matches (in character) the functionality of the ls options. These are the -S and -r options.

OPTIONS

• -c
This option sorts the files based on the last time the files' status changed. This option is a pass-through to ls.
• -f
This option turns off sorting. This option is a pass-through to ls.
• -t
This option sorts the files based on the time of last file modification. This option is a pass-through to ls.
• -u
This option sorts the files based on the time of last file access. This option is a pass-through to ls.
• -U
This option sorts the files based on the time of file creation. This option is a pass-through to ls.
• -S
This option sorts the output based on numeric line counts.
• -r
This option reverses the sorted output. This option is a pass-through to ls if the -S option was not also given.
• -T
This option prints a total of lines counted along with the line counts for each file.
• -Q
This option prints a total of lines counted without the line counts for each file.
• -Version
Display the version information for wcls.
• -help
Display a help message.

AUTHOR

LICENSE

Copyright 2015-2018 Wayne Morrison

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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