Yuval Dinari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Well, this is not really a bug since the program behaves as specified) > > wc -l counts the number of newlines. If the the file doesn't end > with a newline then > this number is less the the number of lines in the file. > Wouldn't it be nicer if wc would return the actual number of lines?
It's far too late to change how `wc -l' works. Many programs rely on the existing behavior, and POSIX requires it. The alternative is to add a new option, but I'm not sure that'd be worthwhile. _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
