From `man wc`: A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a <newline> character. Characters beyond the final <newline> character will not be

From `man wc`: A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a <newline> character. Characters beyond the final <newline> character will not be included in the line count. I first noticed this a few years ago when I tried to count results of some command, for example: # echo foo | grep bar | wc -l 0 # wc -l <<<"$(echo foo | grep bar)" 1 (Yes I'm aware of grep -c)