Ben Walton <bdwal...@gmail.com> writes:

> The awk statements previously used in this test weren't compatible
> with the native versions of awk on Solaris:
>
> echo "dir" | /bin/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
> awk: syntax error near line 1
> awk: bailing out near line 1
>
> echo "dir" | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
> 0
>
> And with GNU awk for comparison:
> echo "dir" | /opt/csw/gnu/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
> 1
>
> Instead of modifying the awk code to work, use wc -w instead as that
> is both adequate and simpler.

Hmm, why "wc -w" not "wc -l", though?  Is somebody squashing a
one-elem-per-line output from ls-files onto a single line?
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