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To count the number of files in a directory, I typically use
ls directory | wc -l But is there another command that doesn't use wc ?
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To determine how many files there are in the current directory, put in ls -1 | wc -l. This uses wc to do a count of the number of lines (-l) in the output of ls -1.
wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of computer files and generates one or more of the following statistics: newline count, word count, and byte count.
this is one:
ls -l . | egrep -c '^-' Note:
ls -1 | wc -l Which means: ls: list files in dir
-1: (that's a ONE) only one entry per line. Change it to -1a if you want hidden files too
|: pipe output onto...
wc: "wordcount"
-l: count lines.
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