Bash Oneliner for Counting Files

I needed to find a way to count the number of files in a directory and only output that number. Bash is still my best friend for this sort of thing – especially with a little help from google.

ls -1 | wc -l

by the way – the answer was 2062 files.

by Claus Witt

May 14, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Development

2 Responses

  1. Chriztian Steinmeier - May 14, 2009

    Neat :-)

    I only got “79″ – does this mean I win?

  2. Claus Witt - May 14, 2009

    I guess so :-)