Saifullah QAZI wrote: > > > Hi, using cygwin, 'wc' count is alway one less than actual lines in file= . > Is that defect or designed.? >
The wc program counts newline characters (0x0a) in the file. info coreutils wc `wc' counts the number of bytes, characters, whitespace-separated words, and newlines in each given FILE, ... It does not really know anything about lines. For example, are lines separated by newlines or terminated by newlines? That has been a confusing problem for years. Counting newlines in files is both unambiguous and also the traditional legacy behavior standardized by POSIX. Changing that would break many things. If the count from wc of newline characters in the file matches the number of newline characters in the file then it is correct and everything is working as expected. If the count from wc of newline characters in the file does not match the actual number of newline characters in the file then it would be a bug. If you have found a bug then please report as small of a test case as you can that illustrates the problem. Plus include the version of the program. For example: echo | wc -l 1 wc --version wc (GNU coreutils) 6.2-cvs Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
