Re: wc -m reports one too many?

[Tobias Reif]

On Sat 2004-05-08 Bob Proulx wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Tobias Reif <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > >   echo f | wc -m
> > >
> > > should yield 1.
> > 
> > No, you forgot to count the newline.
> > 
> > $ 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

Sorry for having bothered you, I should've known that there can't be
such a severe bug in such a basic GNU tool :)

Thank you very much,

Tobi

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