simple list with number of files

[bonehead]

How do you get the number of files within a directory and it's sub-directories in Unix? I'm new to this and have no idea.

 

This can be written more concisely, but I left exploded for clarity.

prompt>ls -lR |grep -v ^'./' |grep -v ^total|grep -v ^d|grep -v ^$|wc -l

This recursively lists the contents of directories, then, using 'grep -v', discards lines starting with './' and 'total' and 'd' and empty lines. The results are piped through 'wc' to get the number of lines remaining.

Oh yeh... this is on Solaris. Maybe slightly different for Linux or HP-UX or other, but probably not.

'hope this helps.