Re: [RML] subscribe {off topic}
Andrew (andrew at pcug.org.au)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 18:49:47 +1000
At 08:40 8/04/99 -0500, Tim wrote:
>At 10:56 PM 4/8/99 +1000, Andrew wrote:
>>At 06:03 8/04/99 +0100, Hugo wrote:
>>>>A while back we had a little round of introductions so everyone got to
know
>>>>everyone else. Perhaps it's time to do that again soon.
>>>
>>>This makes me curious Bruce, of how many people are subscribed to the RML?
>>
>>email majordomo at auug.org.au with subscribe rainbowfish
>>
>>cat the result through a shell script that pipes the line count through wc
>>and returns the 2nd or third column or somesuch, subtract the header, and
>>you should know. You could do the same with perl or expect but that would
>>be just showing off. If you were UNmack you'd use sed or awk just because
>>it was harder...
>
>I'm guessing what Andrew meant to say was that you should send 'who
>rainbowfish' to majordomo at auug.org.au. This returns a list of people, there
>aren't columns so counting the lines is straightforward once you remove the
>leading and trailing bits. The answer is
Doh! How embarrassing, yes, thanks Tim, long day at work and all that :)
Cheers, Andrew
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