[ILUG] count of files in a directory

[Dale Dunlea]

Caveats:
-Ignores hidden files. Can fix this with ls -a | wc -l
-Counts directories as files. Don't know if this is what you want to do
though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Corcoran. [mailto:corcoranj at logica.com]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:27 PM
To: hrishy; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] count of files in a directory



ls | wc -l

Jason
On Friday 20 July 2001 12:16, hrishy wrote:
>  How do i knwo the number of files in a directory is
> there any command to do it.