Re: bug in 'wc -l'

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden writes:

> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:05:09 +0100 (MET), Alfred M. Szmidt
> <address@hidden> posted to gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs:
>  >    I am sending you a patch to solve a 'problem' at the wc program.
>  >    When used with -l option (to count the number of lines) the last
>  >    line isn't counted.
>  > It counts occurences of '\n' (i.e. newline).  So I guess that the
>  > behaviour is correct.
>
> If that's your definition of a line, obviously.

It's POSIX's definition of a line.

Andreas.

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