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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: stupid unix commands
Summary: public domain count works too
Keywords: count
Message-ID: <11@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 90 18:07:15 GMT
References: <15633@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <4108@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> <1574@island.uu.net> <1990May2.170711.16545@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990May2.170711.16545@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>  Perhaps you should consider using the right tool for the job.... What
>you do here in 4 processes and a whole bunch of context switching, I can
>do in one:
>
>	jot 10 11

For those who don't have access to jot, I picked up from the net recently
the 'count' program which ostensibly accomplishes the same thing. It works
for me.