On Wednesday, Aug 2nd 2006 at 15:01 -0500, quoth Les Mikesell:
=>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
function myls ()
{
ls -l "$@"
echo
echo $(ls -l "$@") 'files found'
}
Feel free to pee into this.
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