From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 14:38:49 +0000 (+0000)
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X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_22c~138
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6327a7ad45af79e725e22be53bb5d99080d4c196;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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diff --git a/doc/textutils.texi b/doc/textutils.texi
index f29384a82d..fdaf93a0a7 100644
--- a/doc/textutils.texi
+++ b/doc/textutils.texi
@@ -1513,6 +1513,10 @@ wc --bytes --words
 @noindent
 prints both the byte counts and the word counts.
 
+With the @code{--max-line-length} option, @code{wc} prints the length
+of the longest line per file, and if there is more than one file it
+prints the maximum (not the sum) of those lengths.
+
 The program accepts the following options.  Also see @ref{Common options}.
 
 @table @samp
@@ -1537,6 +1541,12 @@ Print only the word counts.
 @opindex --lines
 Print only the newline counts.
 
+@item -L
+@itemx --max-line-length
+@opindex -L
+@opindex --max-line-length
+Print only the maximum line lengths.
+
 @end table