On 4/9/05 14:04, Andy Collins wrote:
Hi Neil,
On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 21:26, Neil Hughes wrote:
Which brings me to my question...is there a way to get a count of the
number of files in a directory and all its subdirectories, either from
To be honest here I'm not a Tiger user. In fact I don't even use MacOs much at
the moment - Part of a vast eternal plan that hasn't come together yet.
However I am a long time Linux/Unix user and if you get to a terminal and
type :-
find . | wc
You should get there columns of numbers. the first two will be the number of
files.
Oooo...thanks! That'll do nicely. Actually the first two numbers (line
count and word count) are different here, presumably because of the
spaces in some of my directory names.
Next, I need to see what happens with packages and whether they're
treated as one file by the terminal or "expanded". After that I'll start
implementing the line on my to-list which says "learn a new Unix\Linux
command every week".
And to think I knew a fair amount of Unix shell stuff about 12 years ago...
Neil
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