Counting number of files into a directory

[Miguel Cuesta]

Hi!

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

Could anybody help me?

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you can use this:

find | wc -l

or for files only:

find -type f |wc -l

or for subdirs only:

find -type d |wc -l

Regards

[Mike_21]

I would try ls|wc...........

[harry d brown jr]

go to the directory and use this for counting regular files:

find . -type f | wc -l

and this for counting directories:

find . -type d | wc -l

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

One way is this:

For files:

# ls -lR mydir|grep ^-|wc -l

For directories:

# ls -lR /tmp|grep ^d|wc -l

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

Sorry, the uniform example I meant used "mydir" in both cases!

One way is this:

For files:

# ls -lR mydir|grep ^-|wc -l

For directories:

# ls -lR mydir|grep ^d|wc -l

...JRF...

[Ravi_8]

Hi,
#find . -type f |wc -l

gives you the no. of files existing in the present directory.

[Edgar Matzinger]

Hi Miguel,

how about "cd ; find . -print | wc -l"? You have to substract one for the current directory. This counts all the entries in the entire directory-tree. If you only want a single level (no recursion), do "cd ; ls -A | wc -l".

HTH, Edgar.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Miguel Cuesta

Try this

find . -depth -print | wc -l


Manoj Srivastava