Just perform this command under the directory:
find . -type f | wc -land you will get the total number of files under it (recursively). Simply copy and paste that to do the trick.
Or if you just need to count the files directly under the current directory:
ls -f | wc -lWhich is a lot faster than the previous solution.
This should also work on all *nix OS.
You should also read:
- Linux: How to find all the files containing a particular text string?
- Linux: Check how much disk storage each directory takes up (Disk Usage command – du)
- Linux: How to ‘find’ and search ONLY text files?
- Linux: Find files changed or modified within 1 day or older than 1 day
- scp, rsync: Safely and Quickly Transfer Files between Your Hosts / Hosting Accounts / Servers on SSH tunnel
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I will try this command later when I switched to Linux. I am still in exploration stage in Ubuntu and I am having difficulty every now and then that is why I tend to go back to Windows when I am rushing up something.
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@Hans
While many agree that learning new things is exciting, refreshing and often bringing new perspectives, it’s in nature a cost.
Every new approach comes with a cost, to adopt it or not is the question of cost-effectiveness.
I am going to switch to linux in a few days, most likely sometime before Christmas! I will surely have to save this code somewhere. This will make life much easier. Thanks for the quick tip!
Thank You,
Nice tip. Could you use something like this:
ls | wc -l
as well?
Unfortunately this wont work on directories with a lot of files in them; you’ll get the “Argument list too long” error…
@Chris
I used it under a directory with around 18,000 gif images and it didn’t show up the error. What’s the rough number of files you have?
ls -l . | egrep -c ‘^-’
Thank you for this tip. At some point I also needed to count files in all subdirectories as well, so I found this solution, may be it will be useful for somebody else:
ls -laR | wc -l
Nice catch!
Perfect, just what I was looking for! :)