Andy wrote: > 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... I have done some things like that. I guess that I do like to write code, though. And the teeny, tiny benefit is that I have to type less(!) when counting MARC records. Roy