Gavin Scott wrote:

> It probably ought to be:
>
> $ wc -l * | tail -1
>
> and, of course, it won't work for QEDIT files and will give you
> interesting results if anything in the directory isn't a text file.

This works for suitably small directories, but for me:

> shell/iX> wc -l /DEV/SOURCE/* | tail -1
> wc: cannot execute: Arg list too long

Any plans to expand the shell command line buffer?

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>