From: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:58:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: make wc --help say how it defines a 'word'
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doc: make wc --help say how it defines a 'word'

* src/wc.c (usage): Add wc's definition of "word".
---

diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c
index 0698ae1178..6df7feddfc 100644
--- a/src/wc.c
+++ b/src/wc.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ Usage: %s [OPTION]... [FILE]...\n\
       fputs (_("\
 Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if\n\
 more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -,\n\
-read standard input.\n\
+read standard input.  A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters\n\
+delimited by white space.\n\
   -c, --bytes            print the byte counts\n\
   -m, --chars            print the character counts\n\
   -l, --lines            print the newline counts\n\