I need to write the code for a script to count and display # of files and directories and then dispaly the # of each as well as the script name as output. I also have to sow a command to execut the script which I know already
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Jump to PostHi,
Did you have any sample code to start with? What shell are you writing for? I sense that this is a homework problem... and while we like to help, we also encourage growth and self-learning.
Christian
Jump to PostThe following script shows show I would do it, this is with a script instead of the commandline, of course in reality I would use perl but this is a basic idea on how to use bash to do it.
#!/bin/bash directory=0 file=0 total=0 for a in …
Jump to PostYou are right that would be a simpler method of doing it, but since it sounded a lot like a homework assignment I was hoping to just give an indication of how it could be done, whilst indicating that there was better ways to do it, rather than giving the …
Jump to PostI guess I should give Perl/Python another try...
Now if only it didn't take so long before being able to write something actually *useful*, I wouldn't give up so easily :)I don't know about Perl, I'm assuming it'd be the same way, but with Python, it's SUPER easy, fun, …
Jump to Postdefinitely, I couldn't give an unbiased comparison of the two.
Firstly, I LOVE Python. Secondly, I haven't really done enough with Perl or Ruby to make an educated opinion about it. I do know that you can do everything in Perl that you can do in Python-- it's just …
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