diff --git a/apparmor.d/groups/pacman/pacman-hook-perl b/apparmor.d/groups/pacman/pacman-hook-perl
index 07539ae95..aa2be8b09 100644
--- a/apparmor.d/groups/pacman/pacman-hook-perl
+++ b/apparmor.d/groups/pacman/pacman-hook-perl
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ profile pacman-hook-perl @{exec_path} {
   @{bin}/find    rix,
   @{bin}/pacman  rPx,
   @{bin}/sed     rix,
+  @{bin}/wc      rix,
 
         /dev/tty rw,
         /dev/tty@{int} rw,