Unix Commands

> If you want only stuff in the current directory, but not sub-directories:
  ls -a|wc -l

> If you want only regular files in the current directory:
  ls -Fa|egrep '[/|@%=]$'|wc -l

> If you want only regular files, but recursively:
   ls -FaR|egrep '[/|@%=]$'|wc -l

;-)

oops, forgot to use -B option for all above ls commands (in case of people are using crazy filenames)

Oops, you're right about the -a.

Don't know if I'd consider that last one an improvement :-)

> .. an improvement
probaly not if you pipe it to wc
but you'll be supprised (just viewing), sometimes ;-)

oops, and just found an example where all the ls|wc suggestions fail (including mine):

      touch 'a\^Jb'; ls|wc
      # where ^J is ctrl-V followed by return

I think a sulution for this is find, or ls -i|awk 'sophisticated prog here'