Hi, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:27:35PM +0200, Almer S. Tigelaar wrote: > I have been using the 'wc' program (version 5.97) to manually verify > some counts outputted by a component part of an application I am > developing. > > I noticed that: > echo "12345" | wc -m > Gives me '6' as output. But I don't entirely understand why. > > On multi-line input 'wc' seems to add '1' to the character count in each > sentence. One would say then that this '1' is caused by counting > 'invisible' newline characters, but there is no newline in the example > above.
There is a newline added by echo. Use echo -n to avoid this. Erik _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
