Timeline for How can I get a count of files in a directory using the command line?
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| May 19, 2022 at 8:12 | history | edited | user14927127 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 42 characters in body |
| May 19, 2022 at 8:10 | comment | added | user14927127 | Sure. Thanks for Comment. Ad.1. If anything else would work to get what exactly I need I would use stg different, but so far very only this command gives me what I want. Ad 4. ok, ok, edited about plain files Ad.5. It is already in TWO places written about it, do you want it in a very first sentence or where? | |
| May 10, 2022 at 17:22 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (Cont’d) … (5) This is little more than a rehash of comments by don_crissti and Frax, and a few answers. It’s (arguably) OK to take somebody else’s comment and post it as an answer, but only if you give credit to the people who posted it first. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 17:22 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (1) Please don’t pipe grep into wc -l unless you have some reason for not using grep -c. (2) If you use a wildcard (glob), you should use the -d option of ls. (3) What in the world is that second block of commands? (4) Directories are files. The question doesn’t say that it’s asking for the number of plain files. If you want to provide that, you should say that that’s what you are doing. … (Cont’d) | |
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| May 10, 2022 at 11:31 | history | edited | AdminBee | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Formatting |
| S May 10, 2022 at 11:20 | review | First answers | |||
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| S May 10, 2022 at 11:20 | history | answered | user14927127 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |