Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> If you have that many configuration files I would say you have
other
> problems.
[alsadi@pc1 ~]$ find .* | wc -l
88108
this was on my gnome only machine
what if kde and other are installed
I think you want something like
find .[^.]* | wc -l
to avoid counting the files under '.' and '..'
Note also that most of the files you find that way are not config files.
Perhaps you wanted something like
ls -1 .[^.]* | wc -l
or
find . -name '.[^.]*' | wc -l
--Guy