word count wc

Linux and Unix-Like Fedora
1

could someone explain this please.

echo aaaa|wc -c
5
echo aaaa|wc -m
5

But I'd expect the count to be 4

Its SunOS 5.8

Thanks in Advance.

2

Interesting. Does the same thing in Solaris 2.6, and 9, and Fedora too.

3

This is starting to be a faq...

Finding out the length of a string held within a variable
wc -c
length of the string

4

Thanks for your input!

Pretty simple but made complex.
wc man page should get an update.

Cheers!

5

Instead of man wc, check out

info wc

contains those information.

Vino

6

I belive is counting the end Character. If you do:

echo | wc -c
1

echo| wc -c
1