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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.052507.24901@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 12 Aug 90 05:25:07 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.193231.3166@silma.com> <1990Aug6.172225.20319@iwarp.intel.com> <850@jonlab.UUCP>
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In-Reply-To: jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie)

In article <850@jonlab.UUCP>, jon@jonlab (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
| However, have we forgotten our roots?  I'm surprised in this thread
| that no one has mentioned:
| 
| 	TOTAL=`cat * | wc -c`

Because it (a) skips files that start with dot, and (b) is *horribly*
inefficient.  Don't try this at home, kiddies!

Just another UNIX hacker (and look, I didn't mention Perl here, either),
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