[Gllug] counting subdirectories

[Richard Cohen]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, stanley wrote:

> Hopefully this will be an easy one for most,

Yes, it is :-)

> 	For my university coursework I have been asked to create an alias that will
> count and display the number of subdirectories in one directory, and so far
> 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.
> Anyone with any tips.

Try "man find" :-)  Oh, and possibly "man tail"...

> TIA
>
> Stan

Cheers
Richard

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