Andrey Sheyko wrote:
Hello!
I've found out that wc -l doen't count the last line if there is no CR in the
end of line
It's the 'CR' (or NL) at the end of the line that makes it a "new line"...
without that, you just have text appended to the end of the file...
tag 9019 notabug
thanks
On 07/07/2011 02:31 AM, Andrey Sheyko wrote:
> Hello!
> I've found out that wc -l doen't count the last line if there is no CR in the
> end of line
Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug, but a requirement of
POSIX. Furthermore, I think you meant NL, not CR.
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:31:16 +0400 Andrey Sheyko
wrote:
> Hello!
> I've found out that wc -l doen't count the last line if there is no CR in
> the end of line
That is correct. The description for -l says:
-l
Write to the standard output the number of characters in each
input file.
Also
