count command.

[someone_4]

I have a dir /var/sendmail
this is where all the sendmail user files are stored. I is there a count command that I can run that tells me how many files i have in that dir ?

[Pedro Sousa · Accepted solution]

Hi!
ll /var/sendmail |wc -l

[Rob Smith]

Hi, if you are looking for just files and not directories then issue this command from the directory in which you want to count:
ls -l | grep "^-" | wc -l
or
ls -l | wc -l if you want everything.
If by chance you want just directories then:
ls -l | grep "^d" | wc -l
Hope this helps.
Rob