Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:54:06 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: count files in a directory with ls? Message-ID: <20020911125406.A78627@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <F27UtI9dm5UxP9Fekza0000013f@hotmail.com>; from howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:53:09PM %2B0000 References: <F27UtI9dm5UxP9Fekza0000013f@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:53:09PM +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote: > 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. ls | wc -l -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Eight lanes of shimmering cement from http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * here to Pasadena! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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