tlug: file counting

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

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 :)

Regards,

Jim S.


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