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Re: wc -m reports one too many?
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: wc -m reports one too many? |
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Sat, 8 May 2004 11:38:01 -0600 |
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Tobias Reif <address@hidden> writes:
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> > echo f | wc -m
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> > should yield 1.
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> No, you forgot to count the newline.
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> $ printf f | wc -m
> 1
For more information use 'od' to dump each character for your
inspection.
echo f | od -c
0000000 f \n
0000002
printf f | od -c
0000000 f
0000001
Bob