Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.

use Perl

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

wc command on OS X acting weird? More | Login | Reply

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to use the classic discussion system instead. If you login, you can remember this preference.

wc behavior (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

wc's linecount simply counts newlines. By definition, Unix text files should have a newline at the end of the last character. If it doesn't, the last line is "incomplete", and the linecount will be off by one.
At worst, wc will be one line off because the trailing newline is missing. (vi/vim can show a warning about this as well.)

Get More Comments

Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.