Re: New Debian Project Leader Chosen

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:40:56PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was
> composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's,
> sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's,
> four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's,
> forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four
> x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven
> hyphens, and last but not least, a single !
> 				-- Lee Sallows, quoted in Hofstadter's 
> 					_Metamagical Themas_

i only count twenty-three o's

% for i in {a-z} , \' \\- \!; do echo -n $i:; echo $sentence | tr -cd "[^$i]" | wc -c ; done
o:     23

-john