Re: Bug in 'wc' --help output

[Jim Meyering]

DervishD <address@hidden> wrote:
>     In GNU coreutils 5.0, the 'wc' binary outputs this when invoked
> with --help option:
...
> Print byte, word, and newline counts for each FILE, and a total line if
...
> POSIX, the default output of wc are newlines, words and bytes, not
> the reverse.
> but the --help text is not correct. It should read:
>
> "Print newline, word and byte counts for each FILE...."

Thanks for the report.
That was fixed for coreutils-5.0.90.

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.90.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)