tag 9166 invalid thanks On 07/24/2011 03:58 PM, Paul Ingerson wrote:
for example echo "A" | wc -m yield 2 instead of 1. Why is this?
Thanks for the report; however, this is not a bug. In your example, echo "A" really did output two characters: A and newline. Try:
echo A | od -tx1z to see those characters, and try: printf A | wc -m to see the difference (since printf does not output a trailing newline). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
