[GRASS-user] How many modules has GRASS?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 20:09 -0700, Hamish wrote:
> Nikos:
> > Something like
> > 
> >  ls -la $GISBASE/bin/*.* | grep -F r. | wc -l #for raster
> >  ls -la $GISBASE/bin/*.* | grep -F v. | wc -l #for vector
> >  ls -la $GISBASE/bin/*.* | grep -F g. | wc -l #for generic
> > etc.
> > 
> > All in a script and a nice report.
> > 
> > Or there other methods (better than grep -F) doing this?
> 
> Wolf:
> > ls -1 $GISBASE/bin/r.* | wc -l #for raster
> > etc.
> >
> > No need for grep or anything other then file names
> 
> and even the -1 is optional, it automatically switches to that if stdout is piped.
> 
> also remember modules like xganim and nviz without a dot (if list method is not regex) and the few redundant wrapper scripts (r.cats, r.terraflow.short, ..) which are not seperate modules.
> 
> 
> I don't really see the worth in a counting script, but if you really want that the place to put it would be in the tools/ dir along with build_html_index.sh and module_synopsis.sh.

I was asked (some times) how many modules has GRASS and was curious to
count.
> 
> another way, using tab completion:  :)
> GRASS> r.<tab><tab>
> Display all 154 possibilities? (y or n)

Wowww! This is the fastest I suppose ;-) Cool!


> Hamish