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Old 04-24-2011
count files and subdirectories under /software
Dear All

i need to find to total number of the files and subdirectories under /software

i issue this command

find /software/* -print | wc -l

but i need another command to know how many files and subdirectories .
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Old 04-24-2011
Why do you need another command? That one works just fine (given that software in in the root directory). I don't even use the -l.

Here's one I came up with before learning the one you mentioned:

Code:
ls -1aR \!* | egrep '[^\.]' | egrep '[^:]$' | wc -l

Depending on your shell, you may or may not need to escape the $. And you can edit that to display just directories or just files, too.
Last edited by Zucriy Amsuna; 04-24-2011 at 11:39 AM..
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Old 04-24-2011
this directories have a corrupted files and when i use find command the corrupted files not counted for that i need another command to count all files - fine and corrupted files -
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Old 04-24-2011
See my above post, in case you'll miss it.

Also, that \!* can be replaced by any directory if you use that line in a command line; I set it up as a csh alias. \!* allows an argument.
 
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