Bob Thanks for getting back to me promptly. I can understand now why wc increasing it by one but it is obviously, the explanation you gave me should be documented in man page or info page, agreed? Thanks.
Syed -----Original Message----- From: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:14 PM To: Hossain, Syed Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: wc -m count is wrong Hossain, Syed wrote: > I am surprised that I could not found any posting related to this, Here is a recent one. :-) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-04/msg00238.html > /home/shossain$ echo 1234 | wc -m > 5 > 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. The newline on the end of the line is a character. You can see this by using od to dump the values. echo 1234 | od -tx1 -c 0000000 31 32 33 34 0a 1 2 3 4 \n Of course wc is behaving correctly here. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
