[bug #55095] please add "--count" to find

[Harald Dunkel]

URL:
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                 Summary: please add "--count" to find
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: harri
            Submitted on: Sun 25 Nov 2018 04:14:11 PM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.6.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

To get rid of lines like "find /somewhere --someflags --print | wc -l" it
would be very helpful if find could simply count and print the result on its
own. Command line would be

% find /somewhere --someflags --count
42






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