Command Line Question

[jay]

type exactly as below:

find /storage/myfile -type f -print | wc -l



On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Cyberclops wrote:

> Can you be more specific by putting the commands to actually be typed
> inside of quotes?
>
> For example ~>"ls" /somedirectory
>
> cy at hiscomputer:~ > /storage/myfile -type f -print| wc -l
> bash: /storage/myfile: is a directory
>       0
> cy at hiscomputer:~ > find /myfile -type f -print| wc -l
> find: /myfile: No such file or directory
>       0
> cy at hiscomputer:~ > cd /storage
> cy at hiscomputer:/storage > find /myfile -type f -print| wc -l
> find: /myfile: No such file or directory
>       0
> cy at hiscomputer:/storage >
>
> Chris Wong wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Cyberclops wrote:
> >
> > > If I wanted to get a recursive count of the number of files in
> > > particular directory and all its sub-directories, what would I type?
> >
> > find dir -type f -print| wc -l
> >
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