Longest man-page?

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 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
> 

How you count matters:
[summer at bilby ~]$ man perltoc | wc -l
12147
[summer at bilby ~]$ man ethereal-filter | wc -l
64002
[summer at bilby ~]$