count the number of ports

2002-12-04 Thread Zhihui Zhang 

Is there a way to count the number of ports in a FreeBSD release? I guess
this boils down to how to parse the file /usr/ports/INDEX easily.  
Thanks.

-Zhihui


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RE: count the number of ports

2002-12-04 Thread Barry Byrne 
How about:

wc /usr/ports/INDEX

 - Barry

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 Is there a way to count the number of ports in a FreeBSD release? I guess
 this boils down to how to parse the file /usr/ports/INDEX easily.  
 Thanks.
 
 -Zhihui
 
 
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Re: count the number of ports

2002-12-04 Thread Marc Perisa 
Zhihui Zhang wrote:

Is there a way to count the number of ports in a FreeBSD release? I guess
this boils down to how to parse the file /usr/ports/INDEX easily.  
Thanks.


 wc -l /usr/ports/INDEX



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