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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:21:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: count the number of ports
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Is there a way to count the number of ports in a FreeBSD release? I guess
this boils down to how to parse the file /usr/ports/INDEX easily.  
Thanks.

-Zhihui


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