Hi Ethan,
Ahh-ha. Thank You for the info.
Jim Richards
On 20 Mar 2001 01:38:56 -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:21:22AM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> >
> > I think i know some of these....
> >
> >
> > 1) ls -a > filecount && wc -l filecount
>
> or ls -a | wc -l
>
> > 2) find /<your_dir> -perm 0755 -print > exec_count && wc -l
> > exec_count (i think this'll work.. I didn't try it. man find
> > for more info)
>
> more reliable would be:
>
> find /<your_dir> -perm +0111 -print | wc -l
>
> this will find any file with any execute bit set, your example will
> not catch files which are mode 750, 700, 500, 550, 555, etc etc.
>
> > 3) ls *.tar.gz > tar.gz_count && wc -l tar.gz_count
>
> ls *.tar.gz | wc -l
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
