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Let's say I'd like to know how many .png images I have in a folder. In shell I'd run:

ls -1 | grep .png | wc -l

Is there a way to achieve this in emacs (preferably not just reading in from a shell output)?

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(length (directory-files "~/Pictures" nil "\\.png\\'"))

See C-hf directory-files

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  • Thanks. If I wanted to search for both .png and .jpeg, how would the regex look like? I tried [(.png)|(.jpeg)], but it matches other things too. Commented May 30, 2016 at 9:56
  • I'm afraid that wouldn't do what you wanted in any regular expression syntax I've ever seen. As per Ehvince's comment, you should definitely read some documentation. "\\.\\(png\\|jpeg\\)\\'" will do the trick in Emacs. Commented May 30, 2016 at 10:53
  • Thanks. I'll go through the documentation. What I'd tried came from playing with the build-in re-builder Commented May 30, 2016 at 10:56
  • FYI you could also use the rx regexp compiler like so: (rx "." (or "png" "jpeg") string-end) Commented May 30, 2016 at 10:59
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In dired (in directory in which you want to count .png files) run M-x eshell-command:

(length (directory-files "" nil "\\.png\\'"))
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