GNU bug report logs - #9449
Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Laurent TARRISSE" <ltarrisse <at> midilibre.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Laurent TARRISSE" <ltarrisse <at> midilibre.com>
To: 9449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9449: Bug report on 'wc' : characters count adds one character
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:49:24 +0200

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Hi,

Documentation on 'wc' says:
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wc -m, --chars
              print the character counts

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But here follows the output I get:

>echo toto | wc --chars
5
>echo five | wc --chars
5
>echo four | wc --chars
5
>echo f  | wc --chars
2
>echo "" | wc --chars
1

Why does 'wc' add one character ?

Thanks.

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UNIX VERSION:
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>uname -a
Linux jdm-qualiac-srv-trv.midilibre.com 2.6.9-100.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 1 12:04:42 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>uname -r
2.6.9-100.ELsmp
>cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 9)
Kernel \r on an \m
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