Thanks for the many answers and methods guys. Actually Tanner's "find" recipes worked the best for what I needed the command for. The ls and ll commands did count the top two . and ..
Thanks again to all who contributed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Monjar Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] file and directory count --On Friday, August 01, 2003 11:10:08 AM -0400 Ken Mink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another big problem with doing it with 'ls' is that it won't get dot > files. If you don't get the dot files in /home, your count will be WAY > off. If you use 'ls -a', you'll get '.' and '..'. You'll have to > remember to subtract 2 from the count. > The find command is the way to go. or you could use 'ls -A' to not get '.' and '..'... ls has way too many options. -- Daniel Monjar IS Manager, Technical Services bioM�rieux, Inc. Durham, NC US -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
