The wc command shows the number of bytes by default. If you want to count
characters you need to use the flag -m.
As documented in the manual page:
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
Regards,
Elias
On 15 February
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:08 AM, wrote:
> the system's word count mechanism says length four. APL says length three, I
> thought this was going to be length 1 and the symbol '⍝'. Does anyone know
> what I am doing incorrectly:
>
> a@a:~/aplstuff$ echo "⍝" > txt
> a@a:~/aplstuff$ cat txt
> ⍝
> a@
Hi Bug APL,the system's word count mechanism says length four. APL says length three, I thought this was going to be length 1 and the symbol '⍝'. Does anyone know what I am doing incorrectly:a@a:~/aplstuff$ echo "⍝" > txta@a:~/aplstuff$ cat txt⍝a@a:~/aplstuff$ wc txt1 1 4 txta@a:~/aplstuff$ ./wc.ap
