check how many files in a folder linux code example

Example 1: how to check how many files are in a folder linux

$ ls | wc -l

Example 2: list number of files in each folder linux

find . -type d -print0 | while read -d '' -r dir; do
    files=("$dir"/*)
    printf "%5d files in directory %s\n" "${#files[@]}" "$dir"
done