wc (GNU textutils) 1.22 miscounting characters?

[Tim Luoma]

This seems like a 'wc' bug to me.

% /bin/echo 12345|/usr/bin/wc -c
      6

(shouldn't that be 5 not 6????)

(It is consistent...  'echo |wc -c' gives '1'...... 'echo 1 |wc -c' gives
'2......)

What am I missing?


% wc --version
wc (GNU textutils) 1.22

% uname -a
Linux spock.peak.org 2.2.17 #1 SMP Tue Oct 31 01:53:08 PST 2000 i686 unknown