[ILUG] count of files in a directory

[niall at linux.ie]

> ls -1 <dir>|wc -l

Just to be a pedant here, the -1 option to ls is not necessary. ls checks its
STDOUT and if it's not a tty, it defaults to a single column listing. But more
importantly, this doesn't just list the number of files in a directory, but it
includes directories (and special files) too. Yess, I know directories are
files, but if you want only normal files, in the current directory, then you'd
want something like

ls -l|grep "^-"|wc -l


Regards,

Niall