02-05-2008
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Originally Posted by
bbilheimer
Cool, thanks! So you use ls to list it in separate it lines then pipe it to wc to count those lines and print the total number.
That seems like such a hassle, though, there is no flag or something like that so that du or ls can simply show the total number of files in its output?
why do you think its a hassle? FWIW, you can just do it one time. save it as a shell library or function or shell script and you can reuse it next time. Its just a one time effort.
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actdiag
ACTDIAG(1) General Commands Manual ACTDIAG(1)
NAME
actdiag - generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.
SYNOPSIS
actdiag [options] files
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the actdiag commands.
actdiag is a program that generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-a, --antialias
Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter
-c FILE, --config=FILE
read configurations from FILE
-o FILE
write diagram to FILE
-f FONT, --font=FONT
use FONT to draw diagram
-s, ----separate
Separate diagram images for each group (SVG only)
-T TYPE
Output diagram as TYPE format
SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by
http://tk0miya.bitbucket.org/actdiag/build/html/index.html
AUTHOR
actdiag was written by Takeshi Komiya <i.tkomiya@gmail.com>
This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
June 5, 2011 ACTDIAG(1)