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bug#9019: wc -l bug
From: |
Davide Brini |
Subject: |
bug#9019: wc -l bug |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:25:56 +0200 |
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:31:16 +0400 Andrey Sheyko <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hello!
> I've found out that wc -l doen't count the last line if there is no CR in
> the end of line
That is correct. The description for -l says:
-l
Write to the standard output the number of <newline> characters in each
input file.
Also keep in mind that files with a missing newline character on the last
line are, strictly speaking, not valid text files and can cause problems to
a number of text processing utilities.
--
D.