2009/4/9 Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com>: >> set | wc -l >> 8047 >> well. > > This is nearly as big as the shell itself in the (ahem) good old days. > > term% tar tzvf interdata_v6.tar.gz bin/sh > --rwxr-xr-x 8316 Nov 13 15:48 1978 bin/sh
No, it's very likely bigger. wc -l is lines of course, and I'm guessing each line is more than 1 character. However, $ set | wc -l 64 I don't quite get that locally. --dho