Can Fedora count it rpms?

[John Horne]

On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 20:28 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> 	I'm sitting here watching F19 try to downgrade itself to F18, 
> with screenful after screenful flashing by. I know that, if/when it 
> completes, it will tell me how many rpms it means to change; what I want, 
> though (out of admittedly idle curiosity), is the number of all the rpms 
> on the whole machine. Is there a command for that??
>
perhaps: rpm -qa | wc -l





John.

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