From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The answer returned from the test marker is - B 2475 - for wc -c < /etc/group . I believe the answer should be - E Not enough information - the same as the previous question wc -l < tc/group Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. grade question 2. 3. Additional info:
This question is a bit tricky, but the answer is correct. Remember that /etc/group is an ASCII text file. ASCII characters are one byte apiece, so if the file is 2475 bytes then there must be 2474 characters in it.