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Abhiram varma
Abhiram varma

Reputation: 11

Get the count of csv files in a directory

I am using the below command to get the count of csv in a directory

ll *.csv|wc -l

But if there are no csv files it prints

ls: cannot access *.csv: No such file or directory
0

I need to store this count in a variable. If there are 10 csv files then it should store 10 and if there are no csv files it should store 0.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2948

Answers (1)

dan
dan

Reputation: 5231

This is a better solution:

find ./ -type f -name '*.csv' | wc  -l

...it should be noted that file names containing new lines will skew the results (the same with ls)

If your find has the -printf option (like GNU find), you can do this:

find -type f -name '*.csv' -printf '.' | wc -c

This both handles filenames with new lines ok, and may be faster (see here for more info).

Note that if reading from stdin (and not a file given as argument), wc -l or wc -c return numeric values, including 0, if there is no new line for wc -l or no characters (empty string) for wc -c.

Upvotes: 3

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