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I am currently not on a Linux machine. Would the following command produce my wanted result? ls | grep ".pdf" | wc
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Create a script to ask a user for the name of a folder and have the script return the number of files found within the folder. If folder doesn't exist, display error message to the screen I've gotten ...
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I have a directory with a large number of files. I don't see a ls switch to provide the count. Is there some command line magic to get a count of files?
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How do I move all files in a directory (including the hidden ones) to another directory? For example, if I have a folder "Foo" with the files ".hidden" and "notHidden" inside, how do I move both ...
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I get the following error when trying to ls *.txt | wc -l a directory that contains many files: -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long Does the threshold of this "Argument list" dependent on distro ...
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Using the following command, could someone please explain what exactly is the purpose for the ending curly braces ({}) and plus sign (+)? And how would the command operate differently if they were ...
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Related: What's the best way to count the number of files in a directory? I have a system with a largish number of files in a directory $ ls -god xml drwxrwsrwx 7 7070720 Mar 12 11:51 xml If ...
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I'm using this script to save the number of files in a main folder, but it also counts the subfolders inside that main folder. nfiles=$(ls -1 /home/userA/mainfolder | wc -l) Any advice how I can ...
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#!/bin/bash echo " Enter the name of your directory. You should enter the absolute path to the directory if it is not found in the current directory!" read location echo $location filecount=$( find $...
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I have the following alias defined in my .bashrc alias lsfc='ls -l "$@" | tee /dev/tty | grep -v / | echo "File count: `wc -l`"' which is intended to give me the number of ...
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