On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
Replying to message of Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:01:46 -0600
from Tim Walberg <walberg(_at_)cig(_dot_)mot(_dot_)com>
regarding ``Re: Message count''
Not 100% bullet proof, but try
cat ${MAILFILE} | grep '^From ' | wc -l
Heh... where's that Useless Use of cat Award ?
Right next to the Useless Use of wc Award. :-)
The same thing can be written
grep '^From ' ${MAILFILE} | wc -l
which is slightly more efficient.
And as David said
grep -c '^From ' ${MAILFILE} is even more efficent.
Or as an alias for t/csh:
grep -c '^From ' \!*
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