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Get a rough word count of the entire US Code of Law
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get-uscode-wc.sh
# Replace the parallel stuff with xargs if you don't have GNU parallel, or just pipe to 'sh'.
# Use 'wget' on linux, 'curl -O' on mac.
for i in $(seq -f "%02.f" 1 51); do echo "curl -O http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/Title_$i.ZIP"; done | parallel
find *ZIP | parallel --dry-run unzip {}
cat *txt | wc
## Results:
# cat *txt | wc
# 6546729 45920853 338309328
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Install GNU Parallel in 30 seconds: wget pi.dk/3 -qO - | sh -x

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