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An easy way of counting files and directories in a directory is to use the “tree” command and to specify the name of the directory to be inspected. As you can see, the number of files and directories is available at the bottom of the tree command.
The ls command is the most basic command used by everyone in the Linux system. The below ls command will count the number of files and directories in the current directory.
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
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