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Re: wc (GNU textutils) 1.22 miscounting characters?
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: wc (GNU textutils) 1.22 miscounting characters? |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:35:20 -0700 |
> % /bin/echo 12345|/usr/bin/wc -c
> 6
>
> (shouldn't that be 5 not 6????)
>
> (It is consistent... 'echo |wc -c' gives '1'...... 'echo 1 |wc -c' gives
> '2......)
>
> What am I missing?
You are forgetting about the newline character that echo is writing at
the end of the line.
/bin/echo 12345| od -c
0000000 1 2 3 4 5 \n
0000006
:-)
Bob