hi... i was actually looking for something similar to the ms dir function, where i can have the files listed, along with the size of the files, and the total number of files at the end of the list.. thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:56 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: dir/list of files Laurence Orchard schrieb: >On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 14:55 -0700, bruce wrote: > >simple question.. can't find the answer.. how do i do a list of files/dir, >and get the number of files in the dir .... > >ls | wc -l > Not really, as that mixes dirs and files. So for a directory with files and subdirs the result of ls | wc -l != find . -type f | wc -l And hidden files and dirs are not counted as well. for dir in $(find /home/image/ -type d) do echo ">> current dir: ${dir}" find ${dir} -type f echo -n "<< number of files: " find ${dir} -type f | wc -l echo done Alexander -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list