Hi gurus,
I am surprised that I could not found any posting related to this, I was doing simple character count and here is the output from wc: /home/shossain$ echo 1234 | wc -m 5 /home/shossain$ Obviously I was expecting a count of 4 but wc printed out 5. I have tried different string and the count is always increased by one. I also did a test using file: /home/shossain$ echo "0123456789" > test.wc /home/shossain$ cat test.wc 0123456789 /home/shossain$ cat test.wc | wc -m 11 /home/shossain$ Count should have 10 in this case but wc printed 11!!!! Here is the wc version information: /home/shossain$ which wc /usr/bin/wc /home/shossain$ ls -l /usr/bin/wc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21860 Jun 20 2005 /usr/bin/wc /home/shossain$ wc --version wc (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. /home/shossain$ Here is the Linux kernel information: /home/shossain$ uname -a Linux XXXXX.neustar.com 2.6.9-22.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 19 18:32:14 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Please let me know if any other information I need to provide for this bug. Thanks. Syed _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
