> From: Roy Zimmer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 26 May, 2004 08:57 > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linfeed Trick > > Thom Hickey wrote about the "linefeed trick". That was a bit > of a "duh" moment for me. But then, I've seldom had the need > to grep a marc format file. > > He also mentioned wc -l working better with that. I've gotten > around that with a short Perl program: go to > > http://homepages.wmich.edu/~zimmer/marc_index.html > > and look for marccount.pl. > > It doesn't require any modifications to the marc file, but I > suspect that others have written something like that, too. People must really like to write code! What's wrong with using tools already available to you? cat *.mrc | tr \035 \012 | wc -l Seems to work just peachy for me, without writing Java, Perl, Python, etc. Maybe I missed something along the way... Andy.