How to count the files in a directory using Bash Command

Created: 10th Aug 23 1 Views

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You can count the number of files within a directory using the combination of two bash commands - find and wc.

Let's take a look at an example.

$ find ~/Desktop/ -type f | wc -l

13

As you can see, the number of files on my desktop directory has been counted as 13.

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