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How to count the number of files in a directory

I recently needed to count the number of files, not including directories, within a given directory. Additionally, I wanted to count recursively.

On FreeBSD or Linux, you can do this with the following commands:

$ find /path/to/dir -type f | wc -l

Pretty handy!

-Chris

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By cmiller – October 14, 2007

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