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Stéphane Chazelas
Stéphane Chazelas
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For one-line strings, the GNU implementation of wc ashas a -L (a.k.a. --max-line-length) option that does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).

For one-line strings, the GNU implementation of wc as a -L (a.k.a. --max-line-length) option that does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).

For one-line strings, the GNU implementation of wc has a -L (a.k.a. --max-line-length) option that does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).

--max-line-length is GNU only. FreeBSD also have a -L but docs says it returns number of characters, and my tests show number of bytes.
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For one-line strings, the GNU implementation of wc as a -L (a.k.a. wc --max-line-length) option that does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).

For one-line strings, wc -L (a.k.a. wc --max-line-length) does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).

For one-line strings, the GNU implementation of wc as a -L (a.k.a. --max-line-length) option that does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).

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For one-line strings, wc -L (a.k.a. wc --max-line-length) does exactly what you're looking for (except the control chars).