Valdis Kletnieks wrote, in part: > At the moment, we have 4,888 lists on our Listserv. The breakdown by > length of names is: > > % find . -name '*.list' | awk '{printf length($0) -5 "\n"}' | sort -n | uniq -c Buglet? At least on my linux machine, the find returns names of the form... ./listname.list so the "-5" should be "-7". Interestingly, the mean, media and mode of my 229 lists is one and the same number: 8. cheers, wayne