</pre>
== Count number of files ==
This snippets returns the number of JPG files in a directory and its sub-directories:
<pre class="brush:xquery">
basex "count(file:list('.',true(),'*.jpg'))"</pre>
The Linux equivalent is
<pre class="brush:xml">
find . | grep \.jpg$ | wc -l
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