Re: wordcount (wc)

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:27:35PM +0200, Almer S. Tigelaar wrote:
> I have been using the 'wc' program (version 5.97) to manually verify
> some counts outputted by a component part of an application I am
> developing.
> 
> I noticed that:
>       echo "12345" | wc -m
> Gives me '6' as output. But I don't entirely understand why.
> 
> On multi-line input 'wc' seems to add '1' to the character count in each
> sentence. One would say then that this '1' is caused by counting
> 'invisible' newline characters, but there is no newline in the example
> above.

There is a newline added by echo. Use echo -n to avoid this.

Erik