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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers wc -c Post 49999 by Ygor on Thursday 15th of April 2004 06:35:32 AM
Old 04-15-2004
wc is counting the newline character...

$ echo "word" | od -c
0000000 w o r d \n
0000005
$ printf "word" | od -c
0000000 w o r d
0000004

Perhaps use expr to find the word length..

$ expr length "word"
4
 
WC(1)                                                              User Commands                                                             WC(1)

NAME
wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]... wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of characters delimited by white space. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length. -c, --bytes print the byte counts -m, --chars print the character counts -l, --lines print the newline counts --files0-from=F read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input -L, --max-line-length print the maximum display width -w, --words print the word counts --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
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