counting number of directories in a specific directory

Question

find is also printing the directory itself:

$ find .vim/ -maxdepth 1 -type d
.vim/
.vim/indent
.vim/colors
.vim/doc
.vim/after
.vim/autoload
.vim/compiler
.vim/plugin
.vim/syntax
.vim/ftplugin
.vim/bundle
.vim/ftdetect

You can instead test the directory's children and do not descend into them at all:

$ find .vim/* -maxdepth 0 -type d
.vim/after
.vim/autoload
.vim/bundle
.vim/colors
.vim/compiler
.vim/doc
.vim/ftdetect
.vim/ftplugin
.vim/indent
.vim/plugin
.vim/syntax

$ find .vim/* -maxdepth 0 -type d | wc -l
11
$ find .vim/ -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l
12

You can also use ls:

$ ls -l .vim | grep -c ^d
11


$ ls -l .vim
total 52
drwxrwxr-x  3 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 after
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 autoload
drwxrwxr-x 13 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 bundle
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 colors
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 compiler
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 anossovp anossovp   48 Aug 29  2012 filetype.vim
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 ftdetect
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 ftplugin
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 indent
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 plugin
-rw-rw-r--  1 anossovp anossovp 2505 Aug 29  2012 README.rst
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 syntax

$ ls -l .vim | grep ^d
drwxrwxr-x  3 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 after
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 autoload
drwxrwxr-x 13 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 bundle
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 colors
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 compiler
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 doc
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 ftdetect
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 ftplugin
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 indent
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 plugin
drwxrwxr-x  2 anossovp anossovp 4096 Aug 29  2012 syntax

Get a count of only the directories in the current directory

echo */ | wc

you will get out put like 1 309 4594

2nd digit represents no. of directories.

or

tree -L 1 | tail -1

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l

For find -mindepth means total number recusive in directories

-maxdepth means total number recusive in directories

-type d means directory

And for wc -l means count the lines of the input

If you only have directories in the folder and no files this does it:

ls | wc -l