Summary: Dir like command

From: Rick Dempster (red@crunch.usgmrl.ksu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 18 1996 - 16:02:23 CDT


WOW, that was quick!

This has to be the record for returned summary but when I got Mark Anderson's
reply, I think that one will be hard to top.

Reply's"

Mark Anderson:

This will print the total number of files (including subdirectories,
since they are files too) in the current directory:

   % ls | wc -l

If you don't want subdirectories, then exclude them:

   % ls -F | grep -v '\/$' | wc -l
or
   % ls -l | egrep -v '^d|^t' | wc -l
or
   % expr `ls -l | grep -v '^d' | wc -l` - 1

Just why these work is left as an excercise for the student. ;-)
If you want the number left-justified, pipe it through awk:

   ls -F | grep -v '\/$' | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'

The last step is to create an alias or shell script that will take an
argument (call the script fnum):

   #!/bin/sh
   ls -F $* | grep -v '\/$' | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'

Use it like this:

   % fnum /usr/local/bin

Dave McFerren:

try
ls | wc -w

This returns the number of files that are listed by the ls command. If you also
want hidden files, try

ls -a | wc -w

Mike Kail:

o simply show how many files there, use

        % find . -type f -print | wc -l
        

Others where similar to Dave McFerren's
Continuing Thanks
Mike Kail
Gary Lee
Other who have sent but not received

THANK YOU!!
Rick Dempster

>
> I have a user who wants a DOS dir type of return under Unix. Basically, he
> needs to know how many files are in a subdirectory. I've looked in man ls,
du,
> quot and df which did not show an option for giving the number of files.
>
> I thought I saw this question asked a couple of years ago, but could not dig
the
> answer out of the archives.
>
> If there is a quick method could someone please let me know, else I will write
a
> quick script to do it. I don't want to re-invent the wheel.
>



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