At 11:05 10.05.1997 -0400, Jeff wrote:
>This works for suitably small directories, but for me:
>
>> shell/iX> wc -l /DEV/SOURCE/* | tail -1
>> wc: cannot execute: Arg list too long

The following variation might utilize the available
command line buffer more effectively but will, of course,
also fail at a certain amount of files per directory...

shell/iX> cd /DEV/SOURCE ; wc -l * | tail -1

Regards, Lars.