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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Counting Files Post 302476857 by Confirmed104 on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 05:47:37 PM
Old 12-02-2010
Counting Files

In a script, how would I go about finding the number of files for the first parameter after my script name?

For instance, my script name is myscript.sh and the folder I am checking is not the current working directory, lets say it's folder1.

so I type myscript.sh folder1

This script below only works for current directory. Here is what I have so far
Code:
FILE=$1
count=0

for FILE in *
do
     if [ -f $FILE ]
     then
     count=`expr $count + 1`
     fi
done

echo "File Count: $count"

Thanks!

Last edited by Scott; 12-02-2010 at 07:34 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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