On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Adam Sleight spewed into the bitstream:

AS>can't think today...how doe one count the number of files within a
AS>directory...yes I know du, df, and wc for words in a file.  

This works for me...

ls -1A|wc -l

Note that it does not exclude directory entries but it does exclude the
"." and "..".

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