Easy question to answer. Count commands in terminal
 

I am completely new to Linux and I am trying to add up information in a directory with the terminal.

in my /dev I am trying to add up characters, blocks, links, directories, and standard files

Please help! thanks you

What have you got so far; show us the code

well I don't know where to start, but so far I have listed the files in the dir with:

ls -l

You'll want these links:
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://linux.die.net/man/

Note that you title is wrong; you're counting file entries, not cmds :)

However, here's a hint
list only lines beginning with 'd'.
Check the wc cmd http://linux.die.net/man/1/wc ;)

And since there's lot of ways of skinning a cat ... have a look
at what you could achieve with
find & stat instead of ls

@chrism01

Thanks that helped out a lot! I was looking for the "command" that would tell me how to count the files, but you got the idea. I figured it out thanks to you. Linux is a mysterious beast.

Remember to mark question as SOLVED once you have a solution. Also nice if you share the solution so when people search they can learn from you too :)