hstow: use correct option to wc(1) for counting characters not bytes

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bin/hstow b/bin/hstow
index d151504b..f05f0aaf 100755
--- a/bin/hstow
+++ b/bin/hstow
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ if ! command -v readlink >/dev/null; then
     readlink () {
 	# Safe parse of ls(1) output given its POSIX specification.
 	ls -ld "$1" | tr -s ' ' \
-	    | cut -d' ' -f9- | cut -c$((4 + $(echo "$1" | wc -c)))-
+	    | cut -d' ' -f9- | cut -c$((4 + $(echo "$1" | wc -m)))-
     }
 fi
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ stow () {
 
 unstow () {
     cd "$HOME"
-    dir_pat="^.$(echo $DIR | cut -c$(echo $HOME | wc -c)-)/"
+    dir_pat="^.$(echo $DIR | cut -c$(echo $HOME | wc -m)-)/"
     for file in $(find . -type l ! -name . ! -name "$cchars" \
 		      | grep -v "$dir_pat"); do
 	if readlink "$file" | grep -Eq '^(\.\./)*\.STOW/'"$NAME/"; then
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ unstow () {
 [ $# = 2 ] || usage
 [ -d "$2" ] || fail "$2 is not an existing directory"
 DIR="$(cd $2; pwd)"
-[ "$(echo $DIR | cut -c-$(($(echo $HOME | wc -c) - 1)))" = "$HOME" ] \
+[ "$(echo $DIR | cut -c-$(($(echo $HOME | wc -m) - 1)))" = "$HOME" ] \
     || fail "$DIR is not below $HOME"
 
 NAME="$(echo $DIR | tr / _)"