Let's compute the number of EVA characters per page in each transcription: cat L16-eva/INDEX \ | sed -e 's/:.*$//g' \ > all.units set u = ( `cat all.units | sed -e 's/^/L16-eva\//g'` ) cat ${u} \ | count-bytes-per-scribe \ -v scribes='BCDFGIJKLQRTUZ' \ > .bytes-per-page-and-scribe On a different track, I wrote a distribution-sorting program (sort-distr.c) and used it to sort the new label location maps (Note-010.txt, in preparation).