Rahman, Syed A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The wc seems not working correctly, say for example > wc -l filename | cut -c1-8 > should only give the lines, but this your version of wc, behaves > differently. for small size files it does not reserve first 8 colums for > size so get the file name as well > > All others give this > $ wc -l test.ksh | cut -c1-8 > 14 > > Your version gives this---- > $ wc -l test.ksh | cut -c1-8 > 14 test.
I don't think this counts as a bug in wc; it looks (imho) intentional. I see similar "behavior" with wc as of version 5.97 (coreutils). Can someone else shed some more light? Steven Schubiger _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
