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From: kludge@GRISSOM.LARC.NASA.GOV (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Counting PostScript Pages
Keywords: postscript, accounting
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Date: 14 Mar 91 14:35:45 GMT
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In article <9103132037.AA25632@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> jlg@UNCCVAX.UNCC.EDU (john l grant) writes:
>
>Does anyone have a filter program that will count Postscript
>pages before the file goes to the printer?  I've taken a quick 
>look at the Postscript language and believe such a program would 
>be possible.  It's certainly more involved that looking at the 
>size of the file, but definately possible.

how about
   egrep showpage | wc -l

Crude but fairly efficient.
--scott