[Gllug] counting subdirectories

[Matthew King]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:32, Tethys wrote:
> "stanley" writes:
> 
> >the best I have managed is
> >
> >alias dc="ls -1aF | grep "/" | wc -l"
> >
> >this work but also includes the parent and root directories in the count.
> 
> So just remove them:
> 
> 	alias dircount="expr $(ls -1aF | grep / | wc -l) - 2"
> [...]
> 	leto:~% dircount /lib
> 	8

Wouldn't the -A switch to ls make things a whole lot easier?

       -a, --all
              do not hide entries starting with .

       -A, --almost-all
              do not list implied . and ..

Assuming that's not yet another GNU extension.

Matthew

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