Question on ls command

[fireant]

How do I use ls to exclude subdirectories, the . and .. but include all other files? I'll then just wc -w to get the total count of files?

TIA,
Louie C.

 

[marsd]

This is one way:
for i in $(ls *)
do
if [ -f $i ] ; then
echo $i
fi
done

man find, for another.

Good Luck.

 

[predamarcel]

ls -l | grep -v ^d
will give you the files + a line like `total nnnn`



echo $[`ls -l | grep -v ^d | wc -l` -1]
will give you the number of files in current directory.

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[hvn]

using ls with the -A option will leave out the . and .. listing.

eg. ls -lA

should only list files with their details

 

[fireant]

Thanks for the reply guys. However, I found predamarcel's to be most helpful.

I'd like to follow up predamarcel on a few things.

How does the caret work generally? I understood the reverse matching on grep but not the caret (^). And what's the -1 at the end of the command for?

Hope you don't mind. =)

Thanks a lot everyone! Louie C.