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Old 10-06-2007
matrixmadhan matrixmadhan is offline Forum Advisor  
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Quote:
a/b/c> ls a/d/e/*.txt *.dat | wc -l
this would display *.txt files from a/d/e and *.dat files from a/b/c

try this

Code:
ls a/d/e/*.txt a/d/e/*.dat