On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:14:52AM +0800, John wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >for man in man?/*.gz; do
> > echo $(gunzip -c $man | wc -l)"\t"$man
> >done | sort -n
> >
> >
> >8624 man1/mplayer.1.gz
> >8778 man1/bash.1.gz
> >10724 man1/gcc-3.4.1.gz
> >137894 man4/ethereal-filter.4.gz
>
> How you count matters:
> [summer@bilby ~]$ man perltoc | wc -l
> 12147
> [summer@bilby ~]$ man ethereal-filter | wc -l
> 64002
> [summer@bilby ~]$
Indeed, sometimes dramatically so:
<cjwatson@cairhien ~>$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/zshall.1.gz | wc -l
530
<cjwatson@cairhien ~>$ man zshall | wc -l
Reformatting zshall(1), please wait...
19798
(zshall(1) uses an include mechanism to pull in several other zsh* man
pages.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]
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