Altos XENIX/SCO XENIX
Mark Horton
mark at cbnews.ATT.COM
Fri Jan 20 07:54:10 AEST 1989
In article <2148 at van-bc.UUCP> dbinette at van-bc.UUCP (Dave Binette) writes:
>For example the wc command:
>normally it behaved like the standard Word Count programme
>it counted words lines and characters.
>Linking it to wclptb or some such radically enhanced it to also provide
>info on # of 66 line pages, transmisssion time at various baud rates etc.
>
>This was discovered by running 'strings' on the wc programme.
Sounds like the -v (verbose) option I added to the 4.0BSD
wc command. You might try "wc -v" to see if it gives all that stuff.
(It's not in 4.3BSD's wc, Rob Pike made them take it out.)
I have an alias "count=wc -v" to use this.
Mark
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