Count Files Safely from Bash
Company: Squarepoint
Role: Quantitative Researcher
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Count regular files from Bash without breaking on hidden files, spaces, or newlines. Learn safe find usage, recursion and symlink semantics, and why parsing ls is unreliable.
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