Count Files in Folder

The goal is to quickly count all the files that exist in a given folder (recursively).

find <path> -type f | wc -l

If you don't want to recurse down into all the sub-folders, the command can be tweaked to:

find <path> -type f -depth 1 | wc -l

The same logic can be used to count directories, simply replace the -type f with -type d. Or remove it entirely to count both.

find <path> -type d -depth 1 | wc -l

Related

• stackoverflow.com/questions/9157138/recursively-counting-files-in-a-linux-directory