Bug#306868: coreutils: "," isn't a word delimiter when counting words with wc -w

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

Package: coreutils
Version: 5.0.91-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

Please change wc to treat "," as a word delimiter.

Thanks.

Here's how to duplicate the problem:

    $ echo "cat,dog" | wc -w
1
    $ echo "cat dog" | wc -w
2

Other punctuation characters may have a similar
problem.

A workaround is 

    $ cat file | sed 's/[[:punct:]]/ /g' | wc -w


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.21-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1                    2.4.12-1     Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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