[SunRescue] Ok...newbie question...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:01:30PM -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
> How do you get the number of files in a given directory?  I can get the
> total size, individual size, date, time, etc. but not how many files there
> are.  Does this show up anywhere easily?

ls -al . | wc -l

and subtract two (for the . and .. entries)

Bill

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