Commits on Feb 12, 2024

1. wc: unexpected counts for -w flag …

   * As noted earlier, word count output in wc did not match GNU version
   * A word is one or more non-space characters, surrounded by whitespace (including newline)
   * The old code seemed to count the spaces in between words, but I couldn't follow it
   * To test this I built the OpenBSD version of wc on my linux system, then compared total word count for a set of files between OpenBSD, GNU and perl
   
   %$wc_obsd -w s*
   wc: s: Is a directory
          0 s
        524 seq
        330 shar
        319 shar2
        225 sleep
       4098 sort
       1789 spell
        895 split
   wc: sssss: Is a directory
          0 sssss
        444 strings
       1116 sum
       9740 total
   %perl wc -w s*
   wc: 's' is a directory
          524 seq
          330 shar
          319 shar2
          225 sleep
         4098 sort
         1789 spell
          895 split
   wc: 'sssss' is a directory
          444 strings
         1116 sum
         9740 total
   %/usr/bin/wc -w s*
   /usr/bin/wc: s: Is a directory
         0 s
       524 seq
       330 shar
       319 shar2
       225 sleep
      4098 sort
      1789 spell
       895 split
   /usr/bin/wc: sssss: Is a directory
         0 sssss
       444 strings
      1116 sum
      9740 total

   

   mknos authored Feb 12, 2024
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