On wto, 14 mar 2006 o 19:46 GMT, Rita wrote:
> Hi ,
> Is there any command in linux to know how many files are in directory?

If you need it to some script, this might be one of the possibilities:

n=0;for i in /tmp/*;do [ -f "$i" ] && n=$[$n+1];done;echo $n


*it works properly under bash

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