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Can anyone help me creat a shell script command in linux to ask user for directory name and count the number inside it?

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7th Jul 2018, 8:46 AM
Nicholas Kiplimo
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You can do this in ls with "ls [DIRECTORY_PATH] | wc -l"
8th Jul 2018, 4:35 AM
Ben Allen (Njinx)
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You could put that in a shell script
8th Jul 2018, 8:50 AM
Ben Allen (Njinx)
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ben..i need a shell script command
8th Jul 2018, 8:29 AM
Nicholas Kiplimo
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okey thank you
8th Jul 2018, 1:13 PM
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