On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:27:06AM -0700, White Hat wrote: > This is probably a dumb question; however, I never let a little thing like > that bother me in the past.
Heheh! You and many more, my friend, myself absolutely included!
> Using FreeBSD-6.2 and Bash, how do I determine the number of files in a
> given directory? I have tried all sorts of combinations using different
> flags with the 'ls' command; however, none of them displays the number of
> files in the directory.
$ ls | wc -l
will show you how many files and directories in the current (target)
directory. To count just files, and exclude directories, you could try
something like
$ find /target/directory -type f -print | wc -l
Dan
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