how to find the total number of files available in one particular directory

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi All,

There is one directore /orders in my hpux server.

This directory contains lot files and subdirectories.

What is the command is used to find the total number of files available under that directory and its directories

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

define "available" ?

find /orders -type f |wc -l

[Patrick Wallek]

cd /orders
find . -type f | wc -l

The number that is returned is the total number of files in all sub-directories under /orders.

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Senthil,

As they said:

cd /orders
find . -type f | wc -l

Rgds-Kranti

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi Senthil,

You can do it in this way also
$ cd /tmp
$ ls -lrt | grep -v ^d | wc -l
1861

It will not go inside of any other directiory in /tmp.

Suraj