dir/list of files

[Laurence Orchard]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 14:55 -0700, bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> simple question.. can't find the answer.. how do i do a list of files/dir,
> and get the number of files in the dir ....
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
ls | wc -l


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