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From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Subject: Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory
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> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 04:46:43 +1100 (EST)
> From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
> Subject: Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory
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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.