Re: dir command

["Manon Metten" <manon.metten@gmail.com>]

Hi William,

On 7/15/07, William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com> wrote:

For the total number of files:
$ find . -type f | wc -l

For the total number of directories:
$ find . -type d | wc -l

To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you
could do the ridiculous:
$ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -c

Thanks for explaining. I did not know of this option of find.

Manon.