Can Fedora count it rpms?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> I don't know what this is counting--I must have missed the first post.
> Anyway, I ran it in my pclos-kde-32, and go this:
>
> [doug at linux1 ~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
> 2352
>
> So what is it that I have 2352 of?
>

"rpm -qa"  lists all installed packages on its standard output. "wc -l"
counts all the lines in its standard input. Pipe one into the other and
it's telling you that that you have 2352 rpm packages installed. Simple.

poc
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