Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: normal
As far as I can tell wc is not working properly with the arguments -c or -m. I
am learning to write shell programs and
wc -c and wc -m are always 1 chracter off.
Here is an example:
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$ echo 1 | wc -m
2
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$ echo 1 | wc -c
2
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$ echo 1 | wc
1 1 2
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$ echo hello | wc
1 1 6
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$ echo "hello" | wc -c
6
steven@debtop:~/Documents/nixbooks/shell-practice$ echo hello | wc -c
6
I hope that I have this right. I am new and don't want to waste anyone's time,
but this doesn't appear to be
working the way my text book and the man page describes. Any help would be
much appreciated.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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