On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 02:52, Craig Tinson wrote: > 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? Just guessing... # find . -type f | wc -l That is assuming you are looking only for regular files, not directories, links, devices, sockets, etc. -- Chris Kloiber
