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bug#9449: Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character
From: |
Davide Brini |
Subject: |
bug#9449: Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:22:00 +0200 |
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:49:24 +0200, "Laurent TARRISSE"
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Documentation on 'wc' says:
> ----------------------------------------------
> wc -m, --chars
> print the character counts
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> 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 ?
wc isn't adding anything. If you do "echo toto" you're sending five
characters to the pipe. Try this:
echo toto | od -c
--
D.