Re: du enhancement request

[Eric Blake]

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According to Rafal Maszkowski on 10/8/2008 3:16 PM:
> It happens to me that I need to count files in directories. du is a
> command which woud fit best to such task if it had an option "count
> number of files instead of number of bytes". It could be -i as in df -i.

Better than adding an extension that won't be widely available, how about
using an existing command?  For example:

find . | wc -l

is a close approximation and available on any POSIX system (it mishandles
files with embedded newlines in the name).  If you use GNU findutils, you
can use the more accurate:

find -printf - | wc -c

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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