On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 07:42 -0700, bruce wrote: > 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.. 'man ls' will probably show more options than you want to know, but a count of files isn't one of them. If you want the count of lines that anything generates, you can pipe it through wc, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx