On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 02:10:10PM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> Alas! Dominik Vogt spake thus:
> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 02:00:01AM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> > >I think Fvwm comes with about 136,000 words worth of manpages, or
> > >something like that.
> > 
> > 20177 lines, 105729 words, 666190 characters :-)
> 
> That's not what I came up with:
> 
> feztaa@feztron:/usr/share/man/man1$ {
> --> for i in fvwm* Fvwm*  
> --> do
> --> name=$(echo $i|perl -pi -e 's/\.1$//')
> --> man 1 $name|cat 
> --> done
> --> } | wc
>   26466  136635 1292843

Wow, so much code just to cout words.  With zsh:

  $ wc **/*.1

That's all :-)  Of course it counts formatting instructions too.

> 26,466 lines, 136,635 words, 1,292,843 characters. Of course, lines
> isn't meaningful here because man autowraps; the wider your terminal,
> the less lines you'll get. Also, characters isn't meaninful either,
> because the more lines you have, the more spaces there will be to make
> up the indentation. So really, words is the only measurement that is
> useful ;)

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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