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Count files in directory?
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ericbrunson
Technical User
ls | wc -l
recursively:
ls -R | grep -v -e / -e '^$' | wc -l
recursively:
ls -R | grep -v -e / -e '^$' | wc -l
ericbrunson
Technical User
Flugh is right and to do it recursively, drop the -maxdepth 1
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