Subject: Re: bug#34664: Mention wc default action on man page

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:06:52 -0800

tag 34664 notabug
close 34664
stop

On 26/02/19 02:47, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> INFO says
>    By default, ‘wc’ prints three counts: the newline, words, and byte
> and wc --help even more so.
> 
> Alas man wc doesn't say if what we are looking at is bytes or
> characters, so kindly mention the default on the man page!

I'm confused. It says 'bytes', and means it.
One has to specify -m to select characters.

cheers,
Pádraig