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# 1  
Old 07-24-2005
word count wc

could someone explain this please.

echo aaaa|wc -c
5
echo aaaa|wc -m
5

But I'd expect the count to be 4

Its SunOS 5.8

Thanks in Advance.
# 2  
Old 07-24-2005
Interesting. Does the same thing in Solaris 2.6, and 9, and Fedora too.
# 3  
Old 07-25-2005
# 4  
Old 07-25-2005
Thanks for your input!

Pretty simple but made complex.
wc man page should get an update.

Cheers!
# 5  
Old 07-25-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by chaandana
Thanks for your input!

Pretty simple but made complex.
wc man page should get an update.

Cheers!
Instead of man wc, check out

Code:
info wc

contains those information.

Vino
# 6  
Old 05-05-2009
Java

Quote:
Originally Posted by chaandana
could someone explain this please.

echo aaaa|wc -c
5
echo aaaa|wc -m
5

But I'd expect the count to be 4

Its SunOS 5.8

Thanks in Advance.

I belive is counting the end Character. If you do:

echo | wc -c
1

echo| wc -c
1
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