[Gllug] # files in a subdir

[Nix]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, tet at accucard.com stipulated:
> 	find . -type f -print | wc -l
> 	find . -print | wc -l
> 
> to find and how many files and directories are there. For large
> directory trees, both of these will be faster than using du because
> it doesn't have to stat each file.

Not true except on recent Linux kernels (and FreeBSD?), and only then if
your find supports it (new ones do).

(After all, it still must stat each inode it sees to determine if it is
a directory or not, to recurse down it...)

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