Re: How many GNU Emacs committers?

[Mathias Huber]

Dear List,

thanks to everybody who replied!

And thank you for so scrupulously trying to get the numbers right!

>   $ cat **/ChangeLog* | grep '^[0-9]' | cut -d" " -f1 --complement \
>         | sed -e 's/(.*)//' |sed -e 's/<.*>//' | sed -e 's/^[ ]\+//' \
>         | sed -e 's/[ ]\+$//' | sort | uniq | wc -l
>   1736

I was thinking of a similar script, but you beat me to it, Tassilo :-)

Best,
Mathias