[Gpsbabel-misc] Counting the number of waypoints in a file

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Hi, I am working with some geocaching Pocket Queries, and was trying to find
an easy automated way to count the number of waypoints in a GPX file.

The best solution I have come up with so far is to convert the file to csv,
and then count the lines in the file using a batch file like this.


gpsbabel -i gpx -f %1 -o csv -F countTemp.csv
set cacheCount=0
for /F %%i IN (countTemp.csv) DO SET /A cacheCount+=1
del countTemp.csv
echo there are %cacheCount% waypoints in %1


This led me to an idea, could we have a output format called stats, that
returns some statistics on the waypoints currently loaded rather than the
actual waypoints.  If possible in a computer readable way (comma separated
one value per line).
E.g.
WaypointCount,22
RouteCount,0


So far the only statistics that I can come up with that might be useful are

Counts (of all the object types)
Bounds MinLat MaxLat MinLon MaxLon
I am sure that there might me more.

What do people think? Useful? Waste of time? 

Or is it already there and I am missing it?

Robert