> i think that:
>
> awk 'BEGIN{RS=""}END{print NR}'
>
> will give you what you want.and i just realized that since you don't really care about the data, a much quicker answer is: grep -c '^$' but the awk magic might be useful if you decided you want to actually do something with the data down the road. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
