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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Creating a file to count how many files in the directory Post 302373817 by thegeek on Sunday 22nd of November 2009 08:02:00 AM
Old 11-22-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by AntiPin
Code:
find . -type f | wc -l > 1In1.myfile

the problem with this command is that it not update after i add a new file in the directory.
Yes, after adding a new file, how you are expecting it to update the count ? -- you run it once and redirecting it, thats all.... again it wont update.
Quote:
Originally Posted by AntiPin
Anyone got any ideas how i can Solve this????

thx!!!
There are PERL modules which can look for new file creation in directory, if that is created you can get the new count. -- ( you can use this, and make some work around: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Mon...ile/Monitor.pm
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

swac-get

SWAC-GET(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SWAC-GET(1)

NAME

       swac-get - audio collections of words (SWAC) manager

SYNOPSIS

       swac-get [-t] [clear] [update] | [upgrade] | [select <url|packid>] | [deselect <url|packid>] | [list] | [list-sources] | [list-available] |
	       [sql <query>] | [--help] | [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Swac-get is a simple command line program which allows to download and install audio collections of words (SWAC)  in  a	SQLite3  database.
       Audio  collections  can	be imported from the hard drive or directly from the Internet using the HTTP protocol.	Swac-get is designed to be
       used with swac-explore, a GTK+ interface which allows the browsing of the created SQLite3 database.  An important set of free audio collec-
       tions of words (SWAC) is available at: http://swac-collections.org/

       For more information, please, visit the Shtooka Project homepage at: http://shtooka.net/ .

COMMANDS

       clear  clear database

       deselect <url|packid>
	      delete records of the package <url|packid> from the database

       list   list installed packages

       list-available
	      list available packages

       list-sources
	      list source repositories

       sql <query>
	      execute a sql query in the database

       select <url|packid>
	      insert records of the package <url|packid> in the database

	      ex: swac-get select file:///home/<my directory>/
		  swac-get select http://packs.shtooka.net/<my package>/ogg/
		  swac-get select fra-balm-voc

       select source-delete <url>
	      delete <url> from the repositories list

       source-deselect <url>
	      deselect <url> from the repositories list

       source-select <url>
	      add <url> to the repositories list

	      ex: swac-get source-select http://packs.shtooka.net/
		  swac-get source-select file:///home/<my directory>/

       update update the list of available packages

       upgrade
	      upgrade installed packages

OPTIONS

       -t, --target <path>
	      set the SQLite3 database path (default path is ~/.swac/swac.db)

       -v, --version
	      print version information and exit

       -h, --help
	      print this help and exit

EXAMPLES

       swac-get source-select http://packs.shtooka.net/

       swac-get update

       swac-get select chi-balm-hsk1

       swac-get select fra-balm-voc

BUGS

       swac-get doesn't care about the version number for the upgrade command.

AUTHOR

       swac-get and this manual page were written by Nicolas Vion <nico@picapo.net>.

								   mai 25, 2008 						       SWAC-GET(1)
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