Batch file question - average size of file in directory

James Long list at museum.rain.com
Wed Jan 3 15:35:21 PST 2007


> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 04:46:43 +1100 (EST)
> From: Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au>
> Subject: Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: James Long <list at museum.rain.com>, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com>
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> ... you REALLY don't want to zcat 110 thousand files just to wc 'em,
> unless it's a benchmark :)

Quite right!  Well played.



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