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
, 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
the issues.
Syed
-Original Message-
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
examples that I saw in the one of the GNU posting i.e.
echo "1234" | wc -m prints 5
echo -n "1234" | wc -m prints 4
Thanks again,
Syed
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