Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:44:43 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> Cc: White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Determining the number of files in a directory Message-ID: <200711031044.43523.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20071103124932.GB3207@torus.slightlystrange.org> References: <538619.51984.qm@web34408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071103124151.GA3207@torus.slightlystrange.org> <20071103124932.GB3207@torus.slightlystrange.org>
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On Saturday 03 November 2007, Daniel Bye wrote: > 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 > > > like that bother me in the past. > > > > Heheh! You and many more, my friend, myself absolutely included! > > > > > 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. > > > > $ ls | wc -l > > > > 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 > > > > $ 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. find /target/directory -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l should do the trick. See also man find and man wc, of course. JN
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