how can it be so hard to count the number of files in a directory?

update.rb

@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@ log_dir  = LOG_DIR
 
 users.each do |user|
   size  = `du -B1 #{shot_dir}#{user}/ | awk {'print $1'} | head -n 1`
-  count = `find #{shot_dir}#{user}/ -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l | head -n 1`
+  count = Dir["#{shot_dir}#{user}/*"].length
 
-  [size,count].each do |x|
-    x.delete! "\n"
-  end
+  size.delete! "\n"
 
   File.open("#{log_dir}/#{user}.log","a") do |f|
     f << "#{Time.now.to_i} #{count} #{size}\n"