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gsbarry

05-23-2003 03:35 AM

simple question on shell script

How can know how many items(files) are inside a folder.

I can't find that "ls" outputs any information about how many files are inside the folder

jharris

05-23-2003 03:51 AM

Code:

ls | wc -l

Should do you, when ls is piped into another process it prints the files in a single column, wc -l (thats a lowercase L BTW) counts the number of lines it is given.

HTH

Jamie...

gsbarry

05-23-2003 04:09 AM

Thanks, this works

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