[TriLUG] file and directory count

[Ken Mink]

Another big problem with doing it with 'ls' is that it won't get dot
files. If you don't get the dot files in /home, your count will be WAY
off. If you use 'ls -a', you'll get '.' and '..'. You'll have to
remember to subtract 2 from the count.
The find command is the way to go.

Ken


On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:45, Dan Monjar wrote:
> --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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