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From: ires@kaspar.UUCP (Bruce R Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Number of files in a directory?
Summary: use full path name for ls
Message-ID: <116@kaspar.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 14:34:22 GMT
References: <1991May19.034308.9149@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1991May19.111727.18637@virtech.uucp>
Organization: Integral Resources, Milton, MA
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>mikeh@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Michael Hoffos) writes:
>>... how can you get the number of files that are in a directory?

In article < ... > cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>The following will always work:
>
>	for a single directory:		ls -a | wc -l

Because so many of us alias `ls' to things like `ls -xF' it's a good
idea to issue a full path name to `ls' in the command above.

	/bin/ls -a | wc -l

Don't forget that `.' and `..' are being counted.

Bruce
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