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Old 08-01-2008
How to do a find number of files in awk
Hi,

How can i able to do a similar operation to "find" number of files in a folder in an awk?

In bash, we could do easily using "find" command. But currently, I am having an awk block and i wanted to extract these information.

Please advise. Thanks.
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Old 08-01-2008
You can run any shell command from awk using the system() function.

You can also read values from a command using getline, e.g.

Code:
awk 'BEGIN { "find /tmp -type f | wc -l" | getline nfiles; print nfiles }'

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Old 08-01-2008
that's like going one big round isn't it? @OP, why is it you can't just use find/wc ? or even piping the output of ls to awk to count the files?
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