linux count number of files in directory code example

Example 1: bash how many files in a directory

ls -1q log* | wc -l

Example 2: count number of lines in directory linux

find . -name '*.php' | xargs 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