On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Hossain, Syed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob
>
> Thanks for getting back to me promptly. I can understand now why wc
> increasing it by one but it is obviously, the explanation you gave me
> should be documented in man page or info page, agreed? Thanks.
How should we change the wc manual page, then? Currently it says:
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. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read
standard input.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
Personally, I find this quite clear; newlines are bytes too. But,
what change do you propose?
James.
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