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From: mikeh@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Michael Hoffos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Number of files in a directory?
Summary: might be a dumb question
Message-ID: <1991May19.034308.9149@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 19 May 91 03:43:08 GMT
Organization: U. of Calgary Computer Science
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Dumb question time.  I have been using UNIX for many years, but I have
never figured out how to do something: how can you get the number of
files that are in a directory?  This would be really handy for figuring
out how efficient a backup was (you need the number of files backed-up in
order to figure in the header info tar adds for each file).

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Mike Hoffos
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