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Old 07-31-2007, 11:37 AM
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Default UNIX Display or list number of files in a current directory
Recently I found a command that displays the Number of files in a ls command listing:
Code:
ls -l | wc -l
Above will find the number of files in a directory, and it will send o/p as pipe to the wc -l, which outputs the number of lines in its input.

To display all file including hidden and dot files, try
Code:
ls -lA | wc -l
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