1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I am new to unix and would like to have a count of all the files in the current directory as well as all the files in a subdirectory. The command I used was ls -R | wc -l but the number returned wasn't correct. Can someone please help? Thanks (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How do i find out the number of files in a directory using unix command ? (14 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

what's the script to do that? i want to only count the number of files in that directory, not including any sub directories at all (5 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time.. Thanks (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

1) I need a shell code to count the number of files ( without directories or sub-directories ) in a directory given as arguments I tried this code but it didn't work , maybe I tried the wrong one: numOfFiles=`find $1 -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l` I found it in another thread in this site.. ... (17 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there I have a .ksh script that I am using on an AIX ( Actual Level 5.3.10.0, Maintenance Level 5.3.0.0) where I am logging into a windows box, doing a file count on that server and returning the output to the UNIX session. I would like to exit the script at this point in time if the... (10 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All! I would like to have a script that will count the number of files at the top of the hour of soome directories and mail the results to me. I was thinking on : a=`/directory/subdirectory/ | wc -l` echo "/directory/subdirectory :$a" b=`/another_dir/subdir/ | wc -l` echo... (12 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi! I just want to count number of files in a directory, and write to new text file, with number of files and their name output should look like this,, assume that below one is a new file created by script Number of files in directory = 25 1. a.txt 2. abc.txt 3. asd.dat... (20 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm writing a script for searching substring in file content and then moving found files. So far I've wrote script shown below grep -lir 'stringtofind' $1 | xargs mv -t $2 How can i count number of files moved? (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Chaps, I need to count number of files in a remote directory from Linux (FreeBSD) as if 10 trace files (log files) been generated within 5min of time. So this is the script then I can setup a monitoring. I came across with ls -1 \ip\d:\Logs | wc -l but then what else requires to check time... (8 Replies)