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Activity for Ed Morton‭

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Edit Post #288008 Post edited:
about 2 months ago
Comment Post #288008 @#53919 I updated it to include dot-files and print `0` instead of `1` if no files in directory.
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about 2 months ago
Comment Post #288008 @much I updated it to include dot-files and print `0` instead of `1` if no files in directory.
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about 2 months ago
Edit Post #288008 Post edited:
about 2 months ago
Comment Post #292280 The answer will be different depending on which laguage your code is written in. There isn't 1 tool that can robustly count lines of perl vs python vs C vs Java vs Prolog vs Fortran vs Bash, etc. So, as a starting point, [edit] your question to say which language your code is written in.
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3 months ago
Edit Post #288008 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: How to get number of files in directory
Populate an array of the file names and then print how many entries are in the array: $ ( shopt -s nullglob; files=( . ); echo "${#files[@]}" ) 124 That will work correctly even if your file names contain newlines, unlike anything piped to `wc -l`. I'm using a subshell to restrict th...
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over 1 year ago