Need Command Line Help

[thegingertator]

Hello,

Just a heads up I;m using CentOS. So I need to find the number of files and directories in another directory and I need that to be outputted in this format "The number of files and directories in /etc on Thu Oct 16 17:18:16 PDT 2014 is 6162". So far I used the command find /etc -type f | wc -l | awk '{ print strftime(), $0; fflush() }' >output.txt but it just gives me the date and number of files and directories. I need to get it worded correctly. Please help.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

NUMBER=$(find /etc -type f | wc -l)

echo "The number of files and directories in /etc on $(date) is $(NUMBER)"

[thegingertator]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

NUMBER=$(find /etc -type f | wc -l)

echo "The number of files and directories in /etc on $(date) is $(NUMBER)"

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[fjdhdhcyfhf]

1 minute ago, thegingertator said:

YOU ARE A GOD.

I made a typo there shouldnt be brackets in $(NUMBER) it should be

 

echo "The number of files and directories in /etc on $(date) is $NUMBER"

 

[thegingertator]

3 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

I made a typo there shouldnt be brackets in $(NUMBER) it should be

 

echo "The number of files and directories in /etc on $(date) is $NUMBER"

 

I also have to take a log file and find the number of failed login attempts. and output it in the form of " There were 67 failed login attempts between 6:20 and 6:24 on Oct 19th." Any ideas?