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alassiter on 03/10/11


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Count files in a directory

 / Published in: Bash
 

A very simple quick way to count the number of files in a directory.

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  1. ls -1 | wc -l
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  3. ## You can also use find to search recursively and count the returned files:
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  5. find . -name "*.rhtml" | wc -l

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