This one works for the most part, but has a subtle problem: Files
with spaces in their names get counted multiple times (because wc -w
counts words instead of lines). Use the "wc -l" form.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Anthony E . Greene wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2000 23:26 Adam Sleight wrote:
> >can't think today...how doe one count the number of files within a
> >directory...yes I know du, df, and wc for words in a file.
>
> ls -a | wc -w
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