On 2015-11-04 01.05.38 -0500, dan mclaughlin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 21:01:36 -0800 Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...but it's not a bug. wc's line count is required by POSIX to be a > > count of the number of newline characters in the involved input. > > out of curiosity, do you know why? some historic artifact?
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-11/msg01568.html It's not a "source file" unless it ends with a newline. Somewhere along the way "source file" -> "text file."
