ossain, Syed
Cc: Bob Proulx; bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wc -m count is wrong
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Hossain, Syed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Bob
>
> Thanks for getting back to me promptly. I can understand now why wc
> increasing it by one but it is obviously, t
the issues.
Syed
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From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 5:50 AM
To: Hossain, Syed
Cc: Bob Proulx; bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wc -m count is wrong
"Hossain, Syed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can un
"Hossain, Syed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can understand now why wc increasing it by one
It does not do that. It just does not ignore any character.
Andreas.
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Hossain, Syed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
How should
, 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.h
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 ha
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 strin
