On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 09:04, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi, Is there any package that enables one to count the number of files in a directory(s) and/or number of packages installed on a system. Thanks...
You could always try:
dpkg -l |wc -l
and subtrack three from that number for the three information lines at the top. However this may not give an accurate result as you may have some packages that are not installed on your system but have not been purged. Perhaps:
dpkg -l | grep "^ii" |wc -l
As for the number of files in a directory. If you are just looking for the individual directory a
ls -l | wc -l
will give you the number of files in a directory. If you wanted to recurs and find out how many total file in a directory and all sub directories you may need to write a short shell script to do this, or there may be another way.
To recurse through the directory do:
ls -lR | wc -l
To include hidden files and directories in the recursive search, do:
ls -laR | wc -l
Rick
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