Searching for files in a Directory - SUN Solaris

Pablo_beezo · #1 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008

Hi,

I am trying to write a script that will search in a particular directory and tell me how many files are in there. I then want to be able to email certain users of how many files are in that directory and what the file names are?

any help would be great as i am getting confused.

thanks

nua7 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008

This will give you the list of the files.

Code:

list=`find . -name *.txt`
count=`find . -name *.txt| wc -l`

Use the mailx command to mail it to the audience.

Pablo_beezo · #3 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008

thanks nua7 for your help

gnom · #4 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008

try ls | wc -l | mailx

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