Arnaldo Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > There is a bug in the implementation of the -L parameter in wc. > It is triggered by > > http://www.ime.usp.br/~am/122/eps/gapqm2.gz > > Check this out: > > $ zcat gapqm2.gz |wc -l -c -L > 1 6297954 6353180 > > That is, the single line is longer than the whole file. > > This was pointed out by > > William A. M. Gnann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for reporting it and for giving credit. FYI, here's a smaller reproducer: $ printf '\t'|wc -L 8 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils