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Excelsior:~$ manlength remind
   Pages   Lines   Words   Chars
   115.5   5543   36943  270815
Excelsior:~$ manlength mksh
   Pages   Lines   Words   Chars
    74.5   3578   25623  195431

Dear God, what have you done to me, @gumnos???

The man page for #remind is longer than a programming language (#mksh)!!! 🤣

#RTFM #GitErDone #NoNotThatGit #IWasSpeakingTexan

— sent from ed ;)

Also, in case anyone's curious:

function manlength {    # Prints the length of manpages in pages, lines, words, chars
    local output lines pages
    #Depending how you count it, it can be anywhere from 44 to 66.
    # Abiword gave me 48 lines on a default page layout, and that seems
    # reasonable when compared to the results I got when converting
    # manpages to PDFs
    local linesperpage=48
    output=$(man "$@" 2>/dev/null |wc)
    echo "   Pages   Lines   Words   Chars"
    lines=$(echo "$output" |awk '{print $1}')
    pages=$(echo "$lines/$linesperpage" |bc -l)
    printf "%8.1f%s\n" "$pages" "$output"
}

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