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From: mfv <mfv@bway.net>
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Subject: Re: Why does wc increase character count by 1 ?
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> On Sat, 2017-09-09 at 18:10 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
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>Hi,
>
>echo "abc 123" | wc -c
>
>I would expect wc to output 7, but actually I get 8.
>
>Indeed, I see similar behaviour with 'echo | wc -c'
>This should produce 0, but I get 1
>
>What might be the problem ? Thanks for any tips.
>Manish Jain
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Hello,

It appears to be counting the new line.

Use "echo -n" to NOT count the new line.

echo "abc 123" | wc

produces:  1	2	8

echo -n "abc 123" | wc

produces: 0	2	7

Cheers ...

Marek