Re: FN-FORUM: quick linux shell question

date posted 28th September 2006 13:19

On Thursday 28 September 2006 13:30, Mark Bell wrote:
> 'cd' into a directory, it's got 000's of file in it
>
> How can I quickly get a file count (ie: this dir contains 1345 files) ?
>
Pipe the output of ls into wc (word count, not water closet ;-)

$ ls | wc

the first figure is the number of files.

Cheers,
Richard
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