Longest man-page?

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:42 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

> One time going through our not-so-friendly man-pages, I could not
> believe that mplayer's man-page is over 6,000 lines long. Then I
> checked gcc because I knew it couldn't be beaten, and there it was
> with over  10,000 lines. Is there anything out there even larger?
> Thanks...
> 
for man in man?/*.gz; do
	echo $(gunzip -c $man | wc -l)"\t"$man
done | sort -n


8624    man1/mplayer.1.gz
8778    man1/bash.1.gz
10724   man1/gcc-3.4.1.gz
137894  man4/ethereal-filter.4.gz

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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