Quiz: > Interestingly, the directory I tried it on here (full of Java code) > gives 173918 for "cat * | wc -w" and 173920 for "wc -w *".
My take: 2 files don't have a newline at the end, therefore with the cat version 2 words (last word of one file and first of the next) run together. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
