dir/list of files

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 07:42 -0700, bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> i was actually looking for something similar to the ms dir function, where i
> can have the files listed, along with the size of the files, and the total
> number of files at the end of the list..

'man ls' will probably show more options than you want to know, but
a count of files isn't one of them.  If you want the count of lines
that anything generates, you can pipe it through wc, though.

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