Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there any command to know ,how many files are deleted when rm *. cmd was excuted.
I worte script which runs for 1 hours regularly and it is used to delete the .exe files but i need to know how many exe files are deleted regularly.

Please let me know the cmd

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Is there any cmd to see how many files are deleted by excuting the cmd rm *

not by executing rm *, but you can very easily count them, if you set up deleting from a loop:

Code:

cnt=0
for file in * ; do
  rm $file 
  $? && ((cnt++))
done

echo "$cnt files removed" >> log

Another solution would be running rm verbosely and capturing the output

Code:

rm -v * > log
cnt=`wc -l log`

The loop has an advantage of not being limited by number of files you are deleting -- every shell has a limit on how much of arguments it can take, so if you have tens of thousands of files and do 'rm *' it may complain about "Too many arguments".

Though, of course, you'll want to put the log in a different directory so it doesn't get swept up in the delete.

It won't. The asterisk will get expanded by shell before the command is run, when there is not logfile yet.