countmail — be obnoxious about how much mail you have
Description
The
program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously.
History
The
program first appeared in
Nx 1.3 .
was first written by
An Noah Friedman Aq friedman@splode.com
in 1993.
This version was written by Charles M. Hannum
Aq mycroft@NetBSD.org .
Caveats
The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried.
uses
from(1)
and
wc(1)
instead, though these are not shell builtins.