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

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> 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?

'prolly: ls | wc -l

> 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.)

*That* should be the reason why you should get another Sun and not move
people over to NT: the software you need doesn't work worth crap on NT.

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Phil Brutsche				    pbrutsch at tux.creighton.edu

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