Re: question about ls

[Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>]

On 26/09/2018 10:27, Long Wind wrote:
> can ls show number of items in a folder?Thanks!

I use:

ls -1 | wc -l

To include items whose names start with ".", add the "a" or "A" argument 
to ls ("man ls" for details).

For more advanced searches (recursive or filtering on file type), I use 
find.

Kind regards.

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand