Why does wc increase character count by 1 ?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día sábado, septiembre 09, 2017 a las 06:10:41p. m. +0000, Manish Jain escribió:

> Hi,
> 
> echo "abc 123" | wc -c
> 
> I would expect wc to output 7, but actually I get 8.
> 
> Indeed, I see similar behaviour with 'echo | wc -c'
> This should produce 0, but I get 1
> 
> What might be the problem ? Thanks for any tips.
> Manish Jain

$ echo "abc 123" | od -c
0000000    a   b   c       1   2   3  \n
0000010

As you see, echo adds one by of \n

	matthias

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