$ set | wc

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 06:14:13PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> On RHL 8.0:
>     $ set | wc
> 	 50      65    1635
> 
> On CentOS 5.1:
>     $ set | wc
> 	 66      87    2004
> 
> On Fedora 9:
>     $ set | wc
> 	198     396    7673
> 
> On Ubuntu 8.04:
>     $ set | wc
>        5387   15887  163089

I think that one must have bash completions enabled, since that ends up
defining many functions, where one function can easily be 10 to 20 lines
long, which really obscures the amount of data you have in set.

> This seems to be getting out of hand.

The bash completions are pretty handy actualy and probably worth some
environment space.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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