Number of files in a directory?

[Shane Bouslough]

>From article <1146 at mwtech.UUCP>, by martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel):
> In article <1991May19.111727.18637 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> :mikeh at fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Michael Hoffos) writes:
> :>[...]
> :>how can you get the number of
> :>files that are in a directory? 
> [...]
> :If on a v7 style filesystem you can get the size of the directory and
> :divide it by 16, but that only works on a single directory,  is non-portable
> :and definately doesn't work for BSD style file systems.
> 
> And it will not work if you have deleted some files from the directory,
> as directories don't shrink once they have been big (except you have a
> special utility to compress them).

However, if you're going to get the size of a directory, you'll probably
open it anyway, so why not just read each entry and count those not deleted?

> -- 
> Martin Weitzel, email: martin at mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83


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