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I have only one row in my file. When I execute wc -c file1.txt the result is 200, while the output of wc -L file1.txt is 198. What explains the difference of 2?

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-L prints the length of the longest line. Your line must be 198 characters long. The two missing bytes are end of line and end of file characters.

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Thanks Peter for your quick reply. I got your point. but do we have any option to set both results should be same for wc -c and wc -L. am i missing anything here.? –  abhilash May 8 at 14:27
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The two options are meant to provide different information. So, no, you cannot have the two give same result. –  unxnut May 8 at 14:29
    
Thank you both. the file which i shown is being loaded from one process(target). if i want to add/include end of line and end of file charector in the output file what should i do?. Any Idea –  abhilash May 8 at 15:25
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@abhilash Your question essentially was why the output of two different options to the wc program were different. I think that question has been answered. If you have another question, post another separately. This is not a discussion board. –  Benjamin B. May 8 at 15:42
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There is no character that represents "end of file". All you can safely say is that at least one is LF (newline) and that it follows 198 printable characters –  roaima May 8 at 18:24

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