On Sat 2004-05-08 Bob Proulx wrote: > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Tobias Reif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Vim users, don't forget to http://iccf-holland.org/donate.html _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
