Quick question for you smart bods out there
I know that "ls -1 | wc -l" will tell me how many files there are in the current directory..
how would I go about finding out how many files there are in the current directory *and* it's sub directories?
TIA
Craig * *
If you want to count only files in the current directory and all subdirectories, try this:
find . -type f -print | wc -l
Btw, the method you used in your email above skips dot (.*) files and includes directories, links, fifos, etc. If you don't care about that, just add the -R or --recursive switch to your ls command.
