How many files under the directory 1

[thendal]

Hi all!

I am new to unix ....Can some on help me in counting how many .html files are there under my home directory ..
(including all the sub directories)

Thanks in advance

 

[DumTech]

I'm away from my Linux box, but if memory serves, 'find /home/yours -name *.html | wc -l' (with your $HOME of course) should tell you how many are there.

Then again, I'm new too and flub with the find command just about every time I use it, so...

 

[stanhubble]

my 2 cents....
the find command is correct but you will have to quote the *.html after the -name option.

stan

find /home/yours -name "*.html" | wc -l

 

[stanhubble]

ummm sorry you will also need a print option

find /home/yours -name "*.html" -print | wc -l

 

[thendal]

Thanks stanhubble and dumtech...
Yeah i had the quotes problem ......
what that "|wc -l" do.. ...
thank you very much...

 

[DumTech]

For the record, I got the same results with or without the quotes, and with/without the -print.

Snipit from the man page:

wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files

-l is the option to count lines

 

[krischrist]

Hi,
Can't you go to that directory as a root user.If you can then do 'ls -l *.html' on the command prompt.That should do it.

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[stanhubble]

krischrist, yes you could, but the key part of the question was "including all the sub directories"