Take the tour ×  I'm trying to set a cron job for a script which
will append current date/time and number of files in a certain
directory a file. I'm able to do this for only number of files:
ls | wc -l >> /root/log.txt  But how can I include the date/time
in this entry?  share|improve this question add comment  1
Answer  up vote 2 down vote accepted $ echo "$(date) $(ls -1 |
wc -l)" >> /root/log.txt share|improve this answer Thanks for
your speedy reply! –  Cem Oct 9 '11 at 12:14 add comment  Your
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