Re: [gnu.utils.bug] AC_PROG_CC_G, et al, are not very robust

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 18, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Some folks have suggested compiling and running a C program
> to figure out the length of the file, but that would not
> help if I wanted to do a cross compile.

This might work:

awk '{len+=length()+1;} END {print len;}' < filename

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