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Old 02-05-2008
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Originally Posted by bbilheimer View Post
I can't figure out how to simply list the total number of files in a given directory!
total number of files, including directories
Code:
# ls -1 |wc -l
number of files, recursive
Code:
# find /path -type f  | wc -l