On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:30:54 -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2022, at 8:24 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@bec.de> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:39:16PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > >> wc counts items in files. Finding the longest item indeed sounds > >> like a task better suited to awk. > > Doesn’t gnu wc show that tabs have length 8 rather than length 1?
Yes. > Do the other wc implementations differ? FreeBSD and NetBSD "wc -L" counts it as a single character. - todd
