Count Files in Directory Matching name pattern

[saw15]

I need to count the number of files that are select when using the following command: ls -l *.20021001.*

There are literally thousands of files, and I need to know the specific number of files matching this criteria.

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[alray]

Hi,

Try "ls -l|grep *.....*|wc -l" this should give you a count of the matching files.

Hope this helps.

Ray

 

[hiwaycool]

about a million ways to do this one.

ls -l *.20021001.* |wc -l

ls -l|egrep -c 20021001