On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, Counting files:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any utility which can give me the number of files in a
> particular directory?
Lawson used 'find'.
A more simple way is.
ls -al * | wc -l
should return all files in the PWD and its sub dirs.
>
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
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