# echo "2097152/$(echo "/my/still/quite/reasonable/path/to/a/file"|wc -c)"|bc 49932 linux-2.6 # git ls-files|wc -l 36747 Getting close! :) And I would gue

# echo "2097152/$(echo "/my/still/quite/reasonable/path/to/a/file"|wc -c)"|bc 49932 linux-2.6 # git ls-files|wc -l 36747 Getting close! :) And I would guesstimate (Linux, kernel >= 2.6.23) to still be a fairly small amount of the machines people interact with professionally through a command line. And if in a script/snippet, you often want to cover a vast majority of the systems you _could_ end up with. Won't be System III, at least for me, but there has to be a RHEL5 system in a closet right? :)