[SUMMARY] counting the number of files under an entire directory tree

kdea_at_alpine-la.com
Date: 05/26/05

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    Wow,

    Less than 5 minutes and got several replies. The simpliest which I needed,
    to count EVERYTHING under a directory was to use: find <directory> | wc -l

    There are other ways to only count symlinks, directories, or files using
    'find'. For example only looking for files, use: find /usr -type f | wc
    -l

    Thanks to everyone who replied with the answers!

    Kevin

    ---original question---

    We have a directory with a huge number of directories and subdirectories,
    sub-subdirectories, and files. Does anyone know a command or a series of
    piped commands (presumably including 'wc') to count exactly the number of
    files and directories under a specific directory?

    ES40 running Tru64 5.1a.

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