Re: tlug: Re: file counting

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> On 12-Oct-98 Scott Stone wrote:
> > Try changing it to:
> > 
> > find $1/ -type f | wc -l
> > 
> > If you don't have a trailing slash on the path, find goes into stupid mode
> > and doesn't really work.. :)
> 
> OK, tried that. I'm still stuck...
> 
> schweiz:~$ alias numf
> alias numf='find $1/ -type f | wc -l'
> schweiz:~$ numf ~/Mail
> wc: /home/schweiz/Mail: Is a directory
>       0 /home/schweiz/Mail
> Broken pipe
> schweiz:~$ 
> 
> Is the broken pipe coming from find or wc; how would I know?

Are you sure that you can use tokens like $1 in an alias?  It's acting
weird.

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