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yes this is what I was really looking for. I was not sure where to put the parenthesis.

Thanks

I have a function that outputs 3 lines for each result and I want to know how many results there are.

so for example

function | wc -l
24

but I want to see the result 8.

so is there a...

Thanks for the replies

ls -ltr -r *.sas | wc -l

only looks at the current location I think. I am trying to find something recursive like find where it will also look into the sub directories...

I am trying to find the number of files that are of sas files. so I can do

find . -name '*.sas'

but I want to know how many. So what is the command to find so.