On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:41:41PM -0400, R P Herrold alleged:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Matthias Saou wrote:
>
> > R P Herrold wrote :
> >
> > > real stats on file name length
>
> > Seems a bit overkill to me :-)
> > Same thing quickly done in shell :
>
> (grin) -- I _knew_ there was a subshell way, but I was looking
> for a strlen-ish primative in /bin/sh -- I blame it on the
> late hour.
You can mean ${#var}?
$ foo=barbaz
$ echo ${#foo}
6
