[SunRescue] Ok...newbie question...

[Jody Stephens]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mike Hebel wrote:

> How do you get the number of files in a given directory?  I can get the
> total size, individual size, date, time, etc. but not how many files there
> are.  Does this show up anywhere easily?
ls -A /storage | wc -l would give you an approximation (still counting
directorys (if you have subdirs)). If need be you can either use gnu ls
ability to ignore based on a shell pattern or write a quick perl script.
You could also look at a ls -l of the dir.
drwx------   3 jodys    staff        4096 Jul 18 12:10 .xauth
             ^ minus two gives you number of links in that dir
(files/directorys).
(correct me if I'm wrong about the above)
Good luck.
> 
> What I need this for is I need to justify why we need to purchase another
> Solaris workstation and the CAD software to go with it.  I need to know how
> many of the CAD files are in the /storage directory on the server.  (They
> would like me to start moving engineers to NT but I'm not willing to do that
> yet - the NT version of the same CAD software, ExpertCAD, is not up to snuff
> AFAIC.)
> 
> Anybody?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Mike Hebel
> 
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