Activity for AdminBee
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #288541 |
As for adding a tag description: [this help page](https://linux.codidact.com/abilities/edit_tags) explains that to earn this ability you need a minimum of 76 approved edit suggestions. If I read your user profile correctly, you only have 11 edits so far, so this is likely the reason you can't (yet). (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288436 |
Suggested edit: Minor improvement to formatting (all text belonging to one bullet stays indented, code formatting for literal command and option names), use more accessible names for the example programs in question (more) |
helpful | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288311 |
Post edited: Minor clarification, as "print0" is not a POSIX-mandated option for find |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288401 |
The Wikipedia page on Filenames has a nice [comparison table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations) on which characters are allowed on various file systems. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288311 |
Suggested edit: Minor clarification, as "print0" is not a POSIX-mandated option for find (more) |
helpful | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288392 |
Post edited: |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288392 |
Post edited: Add clarification |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288392 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to get number of files in directory A solution I often use (and which is ultimately a variation of the `find`-based approach in the answer by Canina) also uses `find`, but only prints a single `.` per file: ```lang-bash find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '.' | wc -m ``` It then uses the `-m` flag of `wc` to print the number of char... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288311 |
You may want to add a warning that parsing the output of `find` is strongly discouraged, because it will stumble on filenames with non-standard characters, which can actually include the new-line (although the most common pitfall in these scenarios is the space character). The `parallel` approach usi... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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