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count - count the number of elements of an array
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Synopsis
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count $VARIABLE
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Description
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`` count `` prints the number of arguments that were passed to it. This is usually used to find out how many elements an environment variable array contains.
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`` count `` does not accept any options, not even `` -h `` or `` --help `` .
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`` count `` exits with a non-zero exit status if no arguments were passed to it, and with zero if at least one argument was passed.
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Example
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count $PATH
# Returns the number of directories in the users PATH variable.
count *.txt
# Returns the number of files in the current working directory ending with the suffix '.txt'.