On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:22:10PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > Say, any quick way to count the number of messages in a mbox file? > Is "grep -c '^From' file" sufficient? What's "sufficient" depends upon your demands. At a minimum you want to be searching for "\nFrom ". But it's not really that simple. See http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html. Claude