Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:49:33 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining the number of files in a directory Message-ID: <20071103124932.GB3207@torus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20071103124151.GA3207@torus.slightlystrange.org> References: <538619.51984.qm@web34408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071103124151.GA3207@torus.slightlystrange.org>
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--H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:41:51PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:27:06AM -0700, White Hat wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question; however, I never let a little thing l= ike=20 > > that bother me in the past. >=20 > Heheh! You and many more, my friend, myself absolutely included! >=20 > > Using FreeBSD-6.2 and Bash, how do I determine the number of files in a= =20 > > given directory? I have tried all sorts of combinations using different= =20 > > flags with the 'ls' command; however, none of them displays the number = of=20 > > files in the directory. >=20 > $ ls | wc -l >=20 > will show you how many files and directories in the current (target) > directory. To count just files, and exclude directories, you could try > something like >=20 > $ find /target/directory -type f -print | wc -l Except of course, that would descend into the subdirectories you're trying not to count... Sorry - an object lesson in not hitting send before you've tested what you scribbled. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHLG5cixf5fBYiFmoRAjgRAKCgPBWDa3nhzuXhzaFs+XCIbpOMiQCfapv9 IEVQsRkzgKz3R91NdBrxC2k= =7xkF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --H1spWtNR+x+ondvy--
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