What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <850 at jonlab.UUCP>, jon at jonlab (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
| However, have we forgotten our roots?  I'm surprised in this thread
| that no one has mentioned:
| 
| 	TOTAL=`cat * | wc -c`

Because it (a) skips files that start with dot, and (b) is *horribly*
inefficient.  Don't try this at home, kiddies!

Just another UNIX hacker (and look, I didn't mention Perl here, either),
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