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wc -m reports one too many?
From: |
Tobias Reif |
Subject: |
wc -m reports one too many? |
Date: |
Fri, 7 May 2004 23:23:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi
$ man wc
says
-m, --chars
print the character counts
so
echo f | wc -m
should yield 1.
But I get
$ echo f | wc -m
2
$ echo 'f' | wc -m
2
Tobi
tobi ~ $ wc --version
wc (coreutils) 5.0
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
tobi ~ $
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