counting number of files
 

Is there a command in Linux counting the number of files in a directory and all its subdirectories?

ls -R | wc -l

is there a better solution in stead of counting number of lines?

maybe
?

that doesnt count symbolic links though

None I know of in standard installations ... but you
can probaly write something in C.


Cheers,
Tink

Counting number of files
 

Here is a small script to count the number of files directories and sym links in a directory.

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let COUNT=0

for i in $1/*
do
let COUNT+=1
done

echo $COUNT

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example command:

count ./

with a few more modifications to the script it could count all files in sub directories also.

Enjoy!

Re: Counting number of files
 

You sure that's more efficient than
? :)


Cheers,
Tink