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lipun4u

01-11-2011 01:27 PM

o/p of wc

plz look into the following command...

Code:

asit@ubuntu:~/script$ echo 567 | wc -c

4

though 567 is a 3 character number, why the o/p is 4 ??

Tinkster

01-11-2011 01:44 PM

Because echo, invoked w/o a "-n", will append a linefeed.

Cheers,
Tink

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