How to find the total number of files in a folder

devnull10 · 12-16-2010, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

chmod u+s (set suid) affects the user's 'x' permission char, not the file type char ie first char in ls -l

But it wouldn't work for special files - devices, sockets etc.

eludud · 04-19-2011, 03:55 AM

All of this is nice but none of those commands counts hidden files/directories (starting with ".") so flag -a should be included in ls command:

ls -a1 | wc -l (for files, links and directories)

or

ls -la | grep ^- | wc -l <- for files
ls -la | grep ^d | wc -l <- for directories*
ls -la | grep ^l | wc -l <- for symbolic links

Note: Parent directory (..) and current directory are included in result(.) for directories so 2 should be subtracted from result in order do get proper data

rohitchauhan · 09-21-2013, 06:33 AM

Just try this one:

# ls -lhu

or only for dirs:
# ls -lahu */

alimp5 · 08-25-2015, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

Code:

ls -l | grep ^- | wc -l
ls -l | grep ^d | wc -l
ls -l | grep ^l | wc -l

Tnx a lot.
simple and very useful.