On May 26, 2004, at 8:49 AM, Houghton,Andrew 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... Andrew, you're just putting into practice the "Unix Way." :-) -- Eric Morgan