shell script to count number of files in a directory code example

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

ls -1q  | wc -l

Example 2: bash how many files in a directory

ls -1q log* | wc -l

Example 3: shell show number of files in each folder

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