As with anything in unix, there are probably a billion ways to do anything ..
But I'd try a couple of things :
find . | wc -l (to find all files, including ones in subdirs)
ls -l | grep -v ^d | wc -l (to find only files in current dir - directories)
Etc, etc, etc.
Aaron
April Escamilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> anyone out there familiar with Sco unix? I know this is a linux group,
> but we'd like to know the best possible way to see *how many files* are in a
> given directory. any thoughts would be appreciated...
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