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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To: "Zhihui Zhang" <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>,
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Subject: RE: count the number of ports
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:30:42 -0000
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How about:

	wc /usr/ports/INDEX

 - Barry

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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
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Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Zhihui Zhang
> Sent: 04 December 2002 17:21
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: count the number of ports
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to count the number of ports in a FreeBSD release? I guess
> this boils down to how to parse the file /usr/ports/INDEX easily.  
> Thanks.
> 
> -Zhihui
> 
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