Re: problems with a system call

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:01:25 GMT, Joe Smith
wrote:

>Paul Johnston wrote:
>
>> I was going to use the flags -w and -l but noticed something strange
>>
>> ~/project/lang_model/source> wc -l test
>> 50000 test
>> ~/project/lang_model/source> wc -w test
>> 1168463 test
>>
>> Not sure why but "wc -l" returns whitespace before the number of lines
>> "wc -w" has no whitespace before the number of words!
>
>Repeat your test using a file with fewer than 999,999 words.
>There is nothing strange about it.
> -Joe

See what you mean!
Unfortunately in my line files that small are of no use :-)

RE:

please send your test mail to another group ! Idiot