SHELL

count number of files linux

ls | wc -l #Count files on current directory
ls path/to/dir | wc -l #Count files on specific directory path

count number of files in directory linux

ls -R|wc -l

how to count files in a directory linux

# Use this command

ls /etc | wc -l

# replace /etc with the path to the directory you want to work with

How to count number of files in each directory

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

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

number of files inside a folder linux

tree | tail -1

output
10 directories, 294 files

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