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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:55:39 -0700
From:      Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
To:        "How Can ThisBe" <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: count files in a directory with ls? 
Message-ID:  <200209111955.g8BJtdP8065907@axp.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from "How Can ThisBe" <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com>  of "Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:53:09 -0000." <F27UtI9dm5UxP9Fekza0000013f@hotmail.com> 

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> How can I return the number of files in a directory? I was hoping for some 
> kind of ls switch but did not find one. I did get excited about du -c but 
> this returns a total of bytes, not files.
> 
> Any ideas? I thought this would be have been something simple to find, I 
> guess I may have just been looking in the wrong direction.
> 
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