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Re: quickest way to find number of files in a directory?

by johngg (Canon)
on Mar 27, 2007 at 15:05 UTC ( [id://606767]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to quickest way to find number of files in a directory?

You could try this. It excludes the '.' and '..' links

$ perl -le '
opendir D, q{dirname} or die $!;
print scalar grep { ! m{^\.\.?$} } readdir D;'
123
$

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Cheers,

JohnGG

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