hi, I am sending you a patch to solve a 'problem' at the wc program. When used with -l option (to count the number of lines) the last line isn't counted.
First of all, I do not know if it is really a bug, because a newline must end with a '\n' char. But assume a file, that the last line does not end with a '\n', so the last line does not exist ?! Summarizing: The problem is: if the input does not end with a newline "\n", this line is not counted. The classic example: $ echo -n 'Test line' | wc -l 0 This patch below solve the problem. PS: coreutils-5.0 HTH, thobias ------- echo 133449562074222244746332132269002206986P | dc ------- http://thobias.org --- old_wc.c 2004-02-06 08:39:16.000000000 -0200 +++ wc.c 2004-02-06 09:25:52.000000000 -0200 @@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ } bytes += bytes_read; } + /* input might not end with a newline */ + if ((buf[strlen(buf)-1]) != '\n') + ++lines; } #if HAVE_MBRTOWC && (MB_LEN_MAX > 1) # define SUPPORT_OLD_MBRTOWC 1 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils