Re: How to know the number of items of a list ?

[Chet Ramey]

> I want to know how we can know the number of items of a list.

Use an array.

> I need to know this number in a loop. So I am oblige to do
> 2 loop : one to calculate this number, the other to use this
> number.
> I would like to make only one loop. 
> Is it possible ?

lsarray=( $( \ls -d ./* 2>/dev/null ) )
count=${#lsarray[@]}
for var in "${lsarray[@]}"; do
        something with $var, possibly after removing a leading `./'
done


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