Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:37:26 +0100 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple file count question Message-ID: <4056AEB6.4030809@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <000701c40b26$3d5797f0$0200000a@redline> References: <002501c40b24$8c600e10$0301a8c0@daveslaptop> <000701c40b26$3d5797f0$0200000a@redline>
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Craig Reyenga wrote:
> find /path/to/dir -type f -name db\* -print | wc -l
>
> would count the number of files that begin with 'db' in the name, under the
> '/path/to/dir' directory. man find and man wc for more action.
Be careful in case that directory contains subdirectories, since 'find'
will traverse them by default as well. If you want to count files only
in the directory level of '/path/to/dir' you may want to add '-maxdepth
1', like so:
find /path/to/dir -type f -name db\* -maxdepth 1 -print | wc -l
Uwe
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