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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers printing number of files ONLY in ~ directory Post 23416 by rellips on Sunday 23rd of June 2002 02:07:59 PM
Old 06-23-2002
ls -l * | grep -v "^d" | wc -l

explaination:

ls -ld * shows all files -- I added the * because some systems list a total at the beginning and I didn't want this counted as file. The d prevents any recursion into directories.

grep -v "^d" that excudes all lines with a ' d ' at the beginning. In the long listing directory entries alway start with d.

You can look up wc in man.

Note: All links will be dispayed as files with this script regardless of whether they are to files or directories, and any devices listed in your directory (unlikely ) will be listed as files.
 

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LEARN ABOUT V7

zgrep

ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep	options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

																	  ZGREP(1)
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