# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-02 21:26:24 -0500:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > Thanks to all who responded. The approach below does just what I
> > needed.
>
> Here's another way I don't see listed:
>
> $ find . -type f | wc -l
>
> This means "find, starting right here, all files here and in
> subdirectories - then pipe the output through word count just the
> lines."
>
> You'd think FreeBSD would have a command similar to ls, df, du or a
> flag to the find command such as "-countitems" or something.
count the keystrokes:
find . -type f|wc -l
find . -type f -countitems
plus, -countitems switch would only work for find(1), obviously,
while a pipe to wc(1) works with any output.
of course, if you want to see the number of
files/directories/symlinks in current directory, setup a function to
compute them, and let your shell display the results in your prompt.
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