08-08-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by
matrixmadhan
This is absolutely working as expected.
Input is
aa<space>
aa
only the pattern in second line "aa" matches and not the one in the first line.
I'm not sure if your response is serious or joking. The OP was looking for a word count. Clearly there are 2 occurrances of aa, but the code counts one. Assuming you are serious, try
echo "aa\naa"
I get a blank line.
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WC(1) FSF WC(1)
NAME
wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print byte, word, and newline counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -,
read standard input.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
-l, --lines
print the newline counts
-L, --max-line-length
print the length of the longest line
-w, --words
print the word counts
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info wc
should give you access to the complete manual.
wc (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 WC(1)