How To Get "# of files deleted" From RM Command At Terminal?

[johnywhy]

hi

is there a way to get the terminal to display the number of files that were deleted by this statement?

find . -iname "*wine*" -exec rm -rf {} \;

thanks!

[cyberinstru]

One possible way is to run 'rm' with verbose option and pipe it to 'wc'.

Not sure if 'echo $?' will show the deleted number of files.

[atreyu]

Just to add to cyberinstru's good solution, you'd want to add the "-l" flag to wc in order to count just lines, e.g.:

find . -iname "*wine*" -exec rm -vf {} \;|wc -l

and the $? definitely will *not* contain the number of files deleted. As with most command line tools, it will contain the command's EXIT STATUS (run 'man find' for details).

@cyberinstru, i love your avatar (that was me @halloween many years ago...)