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- From: gumby@cygnus.com (David V. Henkel-Wallace)
- Subject: GNU `wc -c' optimization
- Message-ID: <GUMBY.92Sep7064016@Cygnus.COM>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, California
- References: gumby@cygnus.com (David V. Henkel-Wallace)
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:40:16 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:46:09 GMT
- From: pinard@icule.UUCP (Francois Pinard)
-
- Using GNU textutils 1.3, I noticed that `wc -c FILE' or `wc -c *'
- physically reads the file(s). Would not it be better to just stat the
- file(s) and produce the output quickly in those cases?
-
- Until wc handles wide characters...
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