SHELL

bash command to find the number of files in a directory

ls -1q  | wc -l

shell show number of files in each folder

du -a | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

find number of files in a directory linux

find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read -r dir; do printf "%s:	" "$dir"; find "$dir" -type f | wc -l; done

how to find the number of files in a directory linux

		#Find all File's name that starts with chapter-CHAPTER in a Directory 
		count=$(echo $PATH |ls | grep '^moby-CHAPTER' | wc -l)
		echo $count chapters