But sooo much less fun. When I started, I was doing the following: ryan@newslily /tmp/reddit $ find . |grep |xargs grep $foo |wc -l ryan@newslily /tmp/reddit

But sooo much less fun. When I started, I was doing the following: ryan@newslily /tmp/reddit $ find . |grep |xargs grep $foo |wc -l ryan@newslily /tmp/reddit $ find . |grep |xargs grep $bar |wc -l etc. etc. But the nerd in me went "Well I wonder how many times each character occurs?", so I wrote a python script to find each unique character, then count how many times it occurs. (Somebody in the comments pointed out that I could have done this with awk, but still: much less fun to use a canned solution). The most common character in the html files is the letter "e", which occurs 32880 times. If you take the top 8 characters from them, in descending order, they spell "etinsaor", which I assume is some sort of alien dinosaur. If you take them in ascending order, it is "roasnite", which I assume is some sort of radioactive material from another planet that they use to power the servers.