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Old 06-11-2008
Searching for files in a Directory

Hi,

I am trying to write a script that will search in a particular directory and tell me how many files are in there. I then want to be able to email certain users of how many files are in that directory and what the file names are?

any help would be great as i am getting confused.

thanks
# 2  
Old 06-11-2008
This will give you the list of the files.
Code:
list=`find . -name *.txt`
count=`find . -name *.txt| wc -l`

Use the mailx command to mail it to the audience.
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Old 06-11-2008
thanks nua7

thanks nua7 for your help
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Old 06-12-2008
try ls | wc -l | mailx
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