linux count number of files code example

Example 1: count number of files in directory linux

find DIR_NAME -type f | wc -l

Example 2: bash command to find the number of files in a directory

ls -1q  | wc -l

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