I'm wondering if it's not counting directories.... the find command after I saw that was like duh, much easier.... if you have time, just for giggles, try ll -R|grep ogg |wc -l and see if that reports the same number as the find commands. Jeremiah -----Original Message----- From: Dylan Parry [mailto:me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:00 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Listing number of files On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:52:08 -0400, Matt Brodeur <mbrodeur+rhlp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ...for example, I could find out exactly how many OGG files I have in >> total :) > > Something like: > $ find . -type f -iname \*.ogg | wc -l Thanks, this does the job nicely. Jeremiah: your solution, although giving me a figure, seems to me a little out so I'm not exactly sure what else it is counting... :) -- Dylan Parry http://www.webpageworkshop.co.uk - FREE Web tutorials and references -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
