I want to find the total count of the number of files under a folder and all its sub folders.
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Maybe something like this will do the trick:
find . -type f | wc -l
Try the command from the parent folder.
find . -name <pattern> -type ffinds allfiles in the current folder (.) and its subfolders.-name <pattern>only looks for certain files that match the specified pattern. The match is case-sensitive. If you need the match to be case-insensitive, use-inameinstead.- The result (a list of files found) is passed (
|) towc -lwhich counts the number oflines.
answered Apr 8, 2011 at 12:06
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3The solution will fail on files which names contain a newline. Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 14:23
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2even faster:
find . -type f -print0 | tr -d -c '\0' | wc -c– arrangeCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 21:44 -
18@arrange: even faster:
find . -type f -printf . | wc -c- I adopt the print for my solution instead of my -exec echo . Commented Nov 23, 2013 at 3:41 -
1Be aware that this also counts hidden files starting with a dot. I consider this a feature rather than a bug, but it is good to know.– cgogolinCommented Jan 17, 2016 at 13:13
Use the tree command. You might need to install the tree package.
It will list all the files and folders under the given folder and list a summary at the end.
To count files (even files without an extension) at the root of the current directory, use:
ls -l | grep ^- | wc -l
To count files (even files without an extension) recursively from the root of the current directory, use:
ls -lR | grep ^- | wc -l
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True. I'm more inclined to accept and use your answer as the solution. Commented Apr 23, 2019 at 18:17
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Actually, not counting hidden files / files in hidden directories is an useful feature while working inside a subversion or git repository!– lfuriniCommented Apr 8, 2020 at 13:00
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And this is very slow on large folders because
ls -lwill sort the output. Commented Jul 12, 2020 at 7:25
The fastest and easiest way, is to use tree. Its speed is limited by your output terminal, so if you pipe the result to tail -1, you'll get immediate result. You can also control to what directory level you like the results, using the -L option. For colorized output, use -C. For example:
$ tree share/some/directory/ | tail -1
558 directories, 853 files
$ tree -L 2 share/some/directory/ | tail -1
120 directories, 3 files
If it's not already there, you can get it here.
find -type f -printf . | wc -c
Don't count the output lines of find, because filenames, containing 99 newlines, will count as 100 files.
answered Apr 8, 2011 at 14:21
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5Filenames containing new lines is an incredibly rare edge case. Commented Jul 22, 2013 at 13:49
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8@DisgruntledGoat: So an error will be extremely hard to find. Commented Jul 23, 2013 at 2:41
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Use this command for each folder in the path
for D in *; do echo $D; find $D -type f| wc -l; done
You can use find . | wc -l
find . will list all files and folders and theire contents starting in your current folder.
wc -l counts the results of find
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This solution counts also the folders, I gave the mark cause it matched my occasion that I didnt want to count them in :)– toplessCommented Apr 8, 2011 at 12:12
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The solution will fail on files which names contain a newline. Commented Apr 8, 2011 at 14:23
find seems to be quicker than tree so I used below to count files in each directory of the current working directory (ignoring files in CWD) with allowing directories to have spaces:
ls -d */ | while read dir_line
do
echo -n "$dir_line :"
find "$dir_line" -type f | wc -l
done
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Great code, how can I arrange the output lines say in an increasing or decreasing count of files Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 10:08
I'd go with this option myself:
ls -alR | grep -c ^-
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