On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 11:48 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 11:32 AM, michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote: > > sounds like homework to me but how about, for bash shell: > > let num=`find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | wc -l`-1;echo $num > > Or > num=`find / -type d -uid <user id> | wc -l` In fact I forgot to cd to the level above user2 (lost original post so this prob makes no sense)...