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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 18, 2000, Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This might work:
>> 
>> awk '{len+=length()+1;} END {print len;}' < filename

> Are you sure there's not a stupid awk that has some limit for the
> length of a line and will truncate it? :-(

Nope :-(

In fact, I had considered this possibility, but reasoned that, if awk
fails, it would fail identically for identical files, and we'd get the
same result.  But I had failed to consider the case of different files
giving the same results :-(

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