On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > It's time for my periodic complaint: People assuming `wc -l` > outputs just a number. wc on OS X (and perhaps other BSD-like > systems) always aligns the output in columns, even with the -l > flag. > It surely does so on Solaris 10 as well: $ echo x | wc -l 1 $ for i in {1..1000}; do echo x; done | wc -l 1000 Regards, Stefano -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html