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Re: wc -m reports one too many?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: wc -m reports one too many? |
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Sat, 08 May 2004 19:14:32 +0200 |
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Tobias Reif <address@hidden> writes:
> echo f | wc -m
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> should yield 1.
No, you forgot to count the newline.
$ printf f | wc -m
1
Andreas.
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