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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issue with wc -c and wc -m Post 302923440 by Chubler_XL on Sunday 2nd of November 2014 11:25:59 PM
Old 11-03-2014
Just subtract wc -l from the value returned:

Code:
$ printf "one\ntwo\nthree\four\n" | wc -c
18
$ printf "one\ntwo\nthree\four\n" | wc -l
3

So your count is 15 (18 - 3)

or delete the newline chars:

Code:
$ printf "one\ntwo\nthree\four\n" | tr -d '\n' | wc -c
15


Last edited by Chubler_XL; 11-03-2014 at 12:33 AM..
 

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Heimdal Kerberos 5 error reporting functions(3) 	      HeimdalKerberos5library		   Heimdal Kerberos 5 error reporting functions(3)

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