Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 20:14:38 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does wc increase character count by 1 ? Message-ID: <20170909181438.GA2868@c720-r314251> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB12007715EC3BFAF626325B4EF66A0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB12007715EC3BFAF626325B4EF66A0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable El d=C3=ADa s=C3=A1bado, septiembre 09, 2017 a las 06:10:41p. m. +0000, Man= ish Jain escribi=C3=B3: > Hi, >=20 > echo "abc 123" | wc -c >=20 > I would expect wc to output 7, but actually I get 8. >=20 > Indeed, I see similar behaviour with 'echo | wc -c' > This should produce 0, but I get 1 >=20 > What might be the problem ? Thanks for any tips. > Manish Jain $ echo "abc 123" | od -c 0000000 a b c 1 2 3 \n 0000010 As you see, echo adds one by of \n matthias --=20 Matthias Apitz, =E2=9C=89 guru@unixarea.de, =E2=8C=82 http://www.unixarea.d= e/ =E2=98=8E +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub 8. Mai 1945: Wer nicht feiert hat den Krieg verloren. 8 de mayo de 1945: Quien no festeja perdi=C3=B3 la Guerra. May 8, 1945: Who does not celebrate lost the War. --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEXmn7rBYYViyzy/vBR8z35Hb+nREFAlm0L4sACgkQR8z35Hb+ nRGzKA/9EcBufrtVWGUtDA3q5Q0BwNKYNXgeKG4iSXuNHTT8uS+qw4OcPMuo5yda tiZrAFUcnhFjLxIR0icaMSLsoh6o0UYldiv2xi6tAdRT8k+RWR196eX8SBcwwkhZ 2WALd6zZshPgsWNiLxuyNQAXmiXjsKHs8/lPvzGx/249XbUwMjZ8bEb0naboNKYJ 7fBz885rVMNpTpwejP6bALAGAZOKva/wKN50bRCJEgw9cOnDKojvQaU6+W1wBPIg 1yXCnf5SGeEiaacM7+XSb6IupjAHC9UObixoRqou6MDfQ9bOKw8e/Jwfx76C+GLF iFdDjniPFiNUUTSKw7jQetoUOFAMwh4psidzYPpqzqI8vszhvuscTwezHnCzEtT9 PbJbvnlhY/DxoKCrFiZoS2+tLcLr5nLTgsWe+VE3hK2ntLhg5g0uVNDmQp3ZPq+a wkqAev+weoMOUx0zrXwtb284rshSBmEfSToOUtO5m7J7RlvmZUkn7jZSGOmL/kJP PDOKQVwBqLrrZ2F09vXjvIdqPQ3DtEsms9s3TjFYKdnBuE/jRSk6V6x+6dvEotkq xQA+GokxU1RDQ1CC82/zQ3sKSrDKghMm2tjJoonD0BJC95c4dhxxC7znCh3C1E4s su21lUfxfJiqC4hWRVhLmn+PhI/JOfK8WZrcW/wRhnj/aFy4ycA= =tZu4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA--
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