Question

write a shell script to read a directory path from command line. count how many files are there in the directory​

Answer 1

Answer:

I don't know

Explanation:

I don't know

Answer 2

Answer:

(note that it doesn't count hidden files and assumes that file names don't contain newline characters).

To include hidden files (except . and ..) and avoid problems with newline characters, the canonical way is:

find . ! -name . -prune -print | grep -c /

Or recursively:

find .//. ! -name . -print | grep -