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Re: Bug in wc
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in wc |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:28:23 +0200 |
Arnaldo Mandel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
>
> There is a bug in the implementation of the -L parameter in wc.
> It is triggered by
>
> http://www.ime.usp.br/~am/122/eps/gapqm2.gz
>
> Check this out:
>
> $ zcat gapqm2.gz |wc -l -c -L
> 1 6297954 6353180
>
> That is, the single line is longer than the whole file.
>
> This was pointed out by
>
> William A. M. Gnann <address@hidden>
Thanks for reporting it and for giving credit.
FYI, here's a smaller reproducer:
$ printf '\t'|wc -L
8
- Bug in wc, Arnaldo Mandel, 2008/08/22
- Re: Bug in wc,
Jim Meyering <=