Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:41:51PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: >> 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 > > Except of course, that would descend into the subdirectories you're trying > not to count... Sorry - an object lesson in not hitting send before you've > tested what you scribbled. > > Dan >
Well just use the Unix tool for everything - grep: $ ls -F | grep -Ev '/$'|wc -l or if you also want to exclude symlinks: $ ls -F | grep -Ev '/$|@$'|wc -l _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"