Count files in a directory - Bash Snipplr Social Repository

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at March 10, 2011 02:55 by alassiter

Initial Code

ls -1 | wc -l

## You can also use find to search recursively and count the returned files:

find . -name "*.rhtml" | wc -l

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Initial Description

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

Initial Title

Count files in a directory

Initial Tags

command, unix, linux, line

Initial Language

Bash