Jacob Meuser wrote:

> well, I didn't know about wc -c, thanks.  however, the output,
> at least on my system, is not easily parsable, as it is oddly
> aligned, with varying amounts of space.

If you use "wc -c < file" instead of "wc -c file" then wc
doesn't print the file name.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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