On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:05:09 +0100 (MET), Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. However, the poster is probably right that the last line of a file should count as a line even if it lacks a final newline. > Well, if it doesn't end with a newline (\n) then it isn't really a > line... Is too. Is not. Is too. Your reasoning smacks of a circular argument, anyway (nothing personal :-) /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
