Re: number of files in directory?

[Joost Witteveen <joostje@iliana.nl>]

Thomas Adam wrote:
>  --- Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com> wrote: 
>
> > How can I get a count of the number of files in a directory?
> > directory + subdirectoies?
>
>
> Crudely:
>
> ls -1 | wc -l
>
> (note the "-1" option to 'ls' is hyphen-one, NOT lower-case L, which is
> what the option to 'wc' is).

Note, too, that the "-1" option is not deeded, as ls detects that stdout
isn't a terminal, and it wil use one-collumn output with or without the 
"-1".

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