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Why does echo “a” | wc -m return 2? [duplicate]
2019 Community Moderator Election'wc -m' shows one character too manyWhy does echo >file use more real time than echo | sed >file?My echo command doesn't accept switches (echo -n or echo -e)./a.out && echo $? only prints return value if return = 0Initializing a variable with echoWhy do shells implement their own “echo” commands internally?Why does wc get wrong result with output from psWhy does “echo a b c d e | echo” display no result?Why does “echo os.system('/bin/bash')” work?Difference in the result of echo and printfWhy are trailing line breaks stripped when used as an argument (for echo)?
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Why does echo "a" | wc -m echo 2? Other variations in which I try to reduce the number of spaces yield the same result.
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Why does echo "a" | wc -m echo 2? Other variations in which I try to reduce the number of spaces yield the same result.
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Why does echo "a" | wc -m echo 2? Other variations in which I try to reduce the number of spaces yield the same result.
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Because wc counts the newline n too.
echo adds a newline character to end of the output, unless invoked with -n option.
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Because wc counts the newline n too.
echo adds a newline character to end of the output, unless invoked with -n option.
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Because wc counts the newline n too.
echo adds a newline character to end of the output, unless invoked with -n option.
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Because wc counts the newline n too.
echo adds a newline character to end of the output, unless invoked with -n option.
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Because wc counts the newline n too.
echo adds a newline character to end of the output, unless invoked with -n option.
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