Berndt Josef Wulf wrote
> 
> Hmmm, try this
> 
> dingo# locate Makefile | grep pkgsrc | wc -l
>     1127 
> 
> Takes no longer than one second... :-)
> 

or this

#!/bin/sh
#
# This routine prints the number of packages for each
# category listed in file 'pkglist'.
#

for i in  `cat pkglist`
{
 j=`locate Makefile | grep pkgsrc/$i | wc -l`;
  echo $i $j
}

cheerio Berndt
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