Word count problem

ssmith001 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-02-2007

I have a text file that has 5719 rows when I open it up in a text editor. When I do a wc -l in Unix however, it says that I have 5718 rows. What could be causing this difference?

Glenn Arndt · #2 (**permalink**) 01-02-2007

Perhaps the last line in the file doesn't end with a newline character. According to the man page, the "wc -l" command techinically doesn't count the lines in the file; instead, it counts the number of newline characters in the file.

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