On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:14:44PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-12-02 21:26, Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > Thanks to all who responded. The approach below does just what I needed. > > > > Here's another way I don't see listed: > > > > $ find . -type f | wc -l > > > > This means "find, starting right here, all files here and in subdirectories > > - then pipe the output through word count just the lines." > > > > You'd think FreeBSD would have a command similar to ls, df, du or a flag to > > the find command such as "-countitems" or something. > > Nah. The Unix way of doing things is to avoid implementing > "everything" in one, huge, monolithic tool and relying instead on the > user to find creative ways to make many small tools work together. > Absolutely. Of course the most creative ignoring of this rule is Perl :)
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