what's the script to do that?
i want to only count the number of files in that directory, not including any sub directories at all
ls -l | grep -c "^-.*"
then how do I count the number of files that has the word 'test'? assuming that the word only exist in the file once
grep "test" * | wc -l
Use ls | wc -l
This lists the total number of files in current directory.
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