Re: tlug: file counting

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Sounds like there was another successful meeting - wish I could have been there.
> 
> I was playing around with different ways of counting files recursively through
> directories such as a .bashrc alias like
> 
> alias numf='find ./ -type f | wc -l'
> 
> but this isn't really what I want because you have to cd to the desired
> directory to use it. So I wrote a shell script
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> 
> # count the number of files below a given (STDIN) directory
> find $1 -type f | wc -l
> 
> and this does pretty much what I want it to. So, why does
> 
> alias numf="find $1 -type f | wc -l' only count the directory and not the
> files? cat $1 | find -f | wc -l doesn't work either.
> 
> Just a small pebble dropped in the pond of life :)

Try changing it to:

find $1/ -type f | wc -l

If you don't have a trailing slash on the path, find goes into stupid mode
and doesn't really work.. :)

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