hi,

1) I want to find from the current directory the number of files (count) with two or more particular extentions in another directory.

For ex: If I am in a/b/c directory... I want to find the count of the files with .txt and .dat extention in a/d/e directory. I have tried using the below one:

a/b/c> ls a/d/e/*.txt *.dat | wc -l --- this is not working.. Please help.

2) In the above directory a/d/e, i want to get the name of the last file with extention *.dat-- how to get it

Thanks in advance,
Harish

Try this

ls | wc -l

Harish,

do this.this shud work


find a/d/e/ -type f \( -name "*.txt" -o -name "*.dat" \) | xargs ls -l | wc -l


all the best.


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

this would display *.txt files from a/d/e and *.dat files from a/b/c

try this

Thanks man... its working.. can you answer the 2nd query tooo ...