Get the Number of Files in a Directory

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Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

How to find the number of files in a directory using the command line in linux or OS X.

List the total number of files but not directories, recursively

find . -type f | wc -l

List the number of files and directories in the target directory

ls -1 targetdir | wc -l 


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