Re: wc needs --human-readable

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Paul Jarc <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <address@hidden> wrote:
>> every line must have at least one word

> False.  

How so?  Newline does count as whitespace, after all, so it does
separate words.  The only case where this really might fail would be a
last line in a file not properly followed by a newline.  But then,
that makes such an input file a non-text file by the usual conventions
anyway, and thus the output of all text utilities essentially
undefined.

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