unix count files in directory and subdirectories code example

Example 1: linux count files in subdirectories

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

Example 2: linux count files in subdirectories

find . -type f | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

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