Re: DirectoryIterator

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Kim Madsen <php.net@emax.dk> wrote: > Christoph Boget wrote on 26/01/2010 21:17: > > I've looked through the docs but was unable to find out if this is >> possible; >> I hope it is. Is there a way that you get the size/length of the >> collection >> to be iterated (e.g. the total number of files) without having to iterate >> through at least once? >> > > On Linux with safe mode off you can call system("du -hcs THE_DIR") to get > the size of all files, no iterations needed. > right, thats the size, not a count of them. > Number of files could be a find command piped into wc -l, called from > system(), like find . -name "*" | wc -l (but that would count dirs aswell) > right, so on linux, you need to iterate over the filesystem to get a count (unless someone knows a magic command the os / shell provides which returns this info in a single call). -nathan