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Subject: Re: Determining the number of files in a directory
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El día Saturday, November 03, 2007 a las 05:27:06AM -0700, White Hat escribió:

> This is probably a dumb question; however, I never let a little thing like that bother me in the past.
>  
> Using FreeBSD-6.2 and Bash, how do I determine the number of files in a given directory? I have tried all sorts of combinations using different flags with the 'ls' command; however, none of them displays the number of files in the directory.
>  
> Other than, by writing a script to accomplish this feat, how could I achieve my goal?

$ ls | wc -l
     293

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