tag 9449 notabug thanks On 09/06/2011 07:49 AM, Laurent TARRISSE wrote:
echo toto | wc --chars5
Thanks for the report; however, this is correct. wc is counting the newline output by echo.
Try these to see the difference: $ printf toto | wc --chars 4 $ echo toto | od -tx1z
Why does 'wc' add one character ?
It doesn't. Echo does. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
