Autzoo.512 hacknews utzoo!henry Fri Apr 24 13:54:04 1981 wc(1) output format Modified wc(1) to make its output format more tractable: it no longer emits unnecessary blanks and no longer prints the filename if it is given only a single file. In particular, "wc -l foo" (for example) will produce output consisting of one number -- no spaces, no filename. This means that several shellfiles which had to go through convolutions to strip off surplus garbage can now be simplified.