Counting number of files into a directory

[cadbilbao]

Hi!

I do not remember the way to count the number of files and subfolders stored into the same directory.

Could anybody help me?

 

[greenpau]

You can always do "ls -l |wc -l"

This will give you a long list of the dir, and then
count the lines.

Cheers

 

[ayjaycee]

I'd use find :-

cd directory
find . -print | wc -l

If you just want to count files (not directories), then

find . -type f -print | wc -l

For Directories only,

If you just want to count files (not directories), then

find . -type d -print | wc -l

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