[SunHELP] Fwd: total Number of Files in A Directory

[RichT (list addr)]

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> How do we know total number of files in a directory on Solaris and AIX.

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> ls -l|wc -l

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>ls -l|grep -v '^d'|wc -l

well at least on one of my Sol boxes (5.8)

`ls -l ` outputs like this

# ls -l
total 6
-rw------- 2 owner group date filename

so wc -l ing that would give 2 (as it includes the total filesize line)

so i hacked together the above like this...

echo $((`ls -al | grep -v ^d | wc -l` -1))

of course you can change it to sute you situation ie hidden files directorys
etc.

RichT

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