Timeline for How can I get a count of files in a directory using the command line?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 16:27 | comment | added | Stéphane Chazelas | What's the point of that c array? word_count() { echo "$#"; } would be enough. The point of @Gilles solution is to store the count in a returned variable to avoid having to use command substitution (which involves a fork and pipe in shells other than ksh93). | |
| May 14, 2015 at 14:14 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | missing quotes |
| Aug 24, 2010 at 1:16 | history | answered | Dennis Williamson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |