word count wc

chaandana · #1 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005

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.

RTM · #2 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005

Interesting. Does the same thing in Solaris 2.6, and 9, and Fedora too.

Perderabo · #3 (**permalink**) 07-25-2005

chaandana · #4 (**permalink**) 07-25-2005

Thanks for your input!

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

Cheers!

vino · #5 (**permalink**) 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

HernandJ2 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-05-2009

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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