Count files and directories using shell script

Question

I\'m learning bash scripting and have written a script to count the files and directories in the directory that is supplied as argument. I have it working one way which seem

Answer 1

You're not iterating over the list of files inside the given directory; add /* after $LOCATION. Your script should look like:

...
for item in $LOCATION/*
do
...

As pointed by dogbane, just adding /* will count only files that does not begin with .; for doing so, you shall do the following:

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for item in $LOCATION/* $LOCATION/.*
do
...