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gumby@cygnus.com (David V. Henkel-Wallace) writes:

>   From: pinard@icule.UUCP (Francois Pinard)

>   Using GNU textutils 1.3, I noticed that `wc -c FILE' or `wc -c *'
>   physically reads the file(s).  Would not it be better to just stat the
>   file(s) and produce the output quickly in those cases?

>Until wc handles wide characters...

POSIX.2 defines wc -c to output a number of bytes.  I doubt that will
change without adding another option.

Whether the optimization is worth putting in depends on how often
people use wc -c, I guess.
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