[Ma-linux] How to get the number of files in a given directory

[Janina Sajka]

Jay Hart writes:
> How can you get the number of files in a directory?
> 
> for example, say /usr/local/bin had ten files (not including . and ..)
> 
> What command(s) would I issue to get a return for the number of files, in this
> case 10, back at the command line?

ls -1p |grep -v '\''/'\'' |wc -l

It's simpler if you also want to count directories, of course:

ls -1 |wc -l

And, if you want only subdirectories:

ls -1p |grep '\''/'\'' |wc -l

hth

Janina

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jay Hart
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