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bug#9449: Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character
From: |
Laurent TARRISSE |
Subject: |
bug#9449: Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:49:24 +0200 |
Hi,
Documentation on 'wc' says:
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wc -m, --chars
print the character counts
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But here follows the output I get:
>echo toto | wc --chars
5
>echo five | wc --chars
5
>echo four | wc --chars
5
>echo f | wc --chars
2
>echo "" | wc --chars
1
Why does 'wc' add one character ?
Thanks.
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UNIX VERSION:
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>uname -a
Linux jdm-qualiac-srv-trv.midilibre.com 2.6.9-100.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 1
12:04:42 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>uname -r
2.6.9-100.ELsmp
>cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 9)
Kernel \r on an \m
- bug#9449: Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character,
Laurent TARRISSE <=