[ale] Inode count in directory

[Brandon Checketts]

Sorry to have asked a dumb question which was so easily google-able.  I was in 
the middle of catching up the ALE discussions when the problem occurred.  It 
seemed an appropriate question to ask to the group.  And it worked.  I got an 
appropriate answer from Doug within minutes that got me on the right path.

I'll also note that there is some amount of social interaction that occurs by 
posting a question to the list.  I work from home and it is nice to be able to 
socialize a bit, even if it is in the form of asking an occasional dumb question.

Thanks,
Brandon Checketts

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 15:25, Nate Murchison <nate.murchison at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The URL above is a cute and flippant use of google to return links to
>> answers that are ironically wrong.  The first link returned by google
>> points to a site that uses a script that breaks immediately when given
>> a directory name that begins with a comma as an argument (
>> http://fieldsmarshall.com/how-to-count-inodes-for-each-directory/ ),
> 
> You have a directory name that begins with a comma?  WTF?
> 
> That first result works perfectly on both a Debian Lenny and an Ubuntu
> Karmic distro.
> 
>> the second suggests a script that fails to take hard links in a
>> directory into account  (file /a/b and /a/c may be the same inode with
>> two directory entries).
> 
> But if you do more than just read the text on that link you can figure
> it out.  Give a man a fish vs teaching him to fish....
> 
>> The Brandon Checketts probably assumed that he would get a better
>> (either more correct or more helpful) answer from ale than from google.  Oh well.
> 
> Or maybe he didn't.  Who are you to guess?   It's also worth pointing
> out that you provided no solution to Brandon's request, at least I
> pointed him in the right direction with the appropriate google query.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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