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bug#34664: Mention wc default action on man page
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#34664: Mention wc default action on man page |
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Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:06:52 -0800 |
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On 26/02/19 02:47, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> INFO says
> By default, ‘wc’ prints three counts: the newline, words, and byte
> and wc --help even more so.
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> Alas man wc doesn't say if what we are looking at is bytes or
> characters, so kindly mention the default on the man page!
I'm confused. It says 'bytes', and means it.
One has to specify -m to select characters.
cheers,
Pádraig