> I just noticed that if the last line in a file doesn't have a \n
> character at the end, wc doesn't count that line. Is this the intended
> behavior or a bug?
Yes that is the intended behavior. The wc program counts the number
of newlines in a file. If a file does not end in a newline then it
won't get added to the count of newline characters. Check out the man
page for wc, the info page for wc or the online standards pages.
http://www.UNIX-systems.org/single_UNIX_specification_v2/xcu/wc.html
Bob
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