Longest man-page?

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:14:52AM +0800, John wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >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
> 
> How you count matters:
> [summer at bilby ~]$ man perltoc | wc -l
> 12147
> [summer at bilby ~]$ man ethereal-filter | wc -l
> 64002
> [summer at bilby ~]$

Indeed, sometimes dramatically so:

  <cjwatson at cairhien ~>$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/zshall.1.gz | wc -l
  530
  <cjwatson at cairhien ~>$ man zshall | wc -l
  Reformatting zshall(1), please wait...
  19798

(zshall(1) uses an include mechanism to pull in several other zsh* man
pages.)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]