.TH LENGTH l UBC/cdl
.SH NAME
length \- report file line statistics
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B length
[ file ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Length
calculates and reports five attributes concerned
with UNIX file lines. These attributes, in order of
their display, are minimum line length, maximum line
length, average line length, the total number of
lines in the file,
and the total number of 66-line pages in the file.
.I Length
reads from standard input if no files are
specified.
.SH SEE ALSO
wc(1) which counts lines and words.