Note:  in a directory (/usr/local/src) there is a file with a space in it.

[swank@licious src]$ ls -l /usr/local/src
total 1748
drwxrwxrwx 11 1000 users    4096 Feb 11 19:10 samhain-2.4.3
-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users 1760941 Jan 31 13:40 samhain-2.4.3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 1000 users     191 Jan 31 13:41 samhain-2.4.3.tar.gz.asc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root        0 Feb 11 20:45 some file


Write a small script on the command line to use debugfs to list files in a directory (with some formating):

[swank@licious src]$ DIRECTORY=/usr/local/src
[swank@licious src]$ FILES_ON_DISK=( $( debugfs /dev/DiskMirror/Host-Running -R "ls -l $DIRECTORY" 2>/dev/null | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | cut -b4- | grep -v '^.$' | grep -v '^..$' | grep -v '^$' ) )
[swank@licious src]$ echo ${#FILES_ON_DISK[@]}
4

It outputs 4!!

Take that small script and place it in a script named check.sh

[swank@licious src]$ cat /root/check.sh
#!/bin/bash

DIRECTORY=/usr/local/src
FILES_ON_DISK=( $( debugfs /dev/DiskMirror/Host-Running -R "ls -l $DIRECTORY" 2>/dev/null | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | cut -b4- | grep -v '^.$' | grep -v '^..$' | grep -v '^$' ) )
echo ${#FILES_ON_DISK[@]}
[swank@licious src]$ sh /root/check.sh
5

It outputs 5!!