check number of files in directory linux code example

Example 1: bash command to find the number of files in a directory

ls -1q  | 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

Example 3: find number of files in a directory linux

find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read -r dir; do printf "%s:\t" "$dir"; find "$dir" -type f | wc -l; done

Example 4: shell show number of files in each folder

du -a | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr