[TriLUG] file and directory count

[Dan Monjar]

--On Thursday, July 31, 2003 04:36:07 PM -0400 Tanner Lovelace 
<lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:

> ls -1 | wc -l
>
> By using -1 instead of -l (that's a one instead of a letter l) it
> does not put the non-file line at the top (at least that I know of)
> so it will give you a count of all the files in the current directory
> only.

To be obsessively nit-picky, you don't need the '-1' just

	ls|wc -l

will do it.  When the output of 'ls' is not a terminal, as in a pipe, then 
the '-1' is the default.

--
Daniel Monjar
IS Manager, Technical Services
bioMérieux, Inc.
Durham, NC US
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