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I am able to list all the directories by
find ./ -type d
I attempted to list the contents of each directory and count the number of files in each directory by using the following command
find ./ -type d | xargs ls -l | wc -l
But this summed the total number of lines returned by
find ./ -type d | xargs ls -l
Is there a way I can count the number of files in each directory?
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To determine how many files there are in the current directory, put in ls -1 | wc -l. This uses wc to do a count of the number of lines (-l) in the output of ls -1.
Browse to the folder containing the files you want to count. Highlight one of the files in that folder and press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A to highlight all files and folders in that folder. In the Explorer status bar, you'll see how many files and folders are highlighted, as shown in the picture below.
Right-click on the folder and select the “Properties” option. The “Properties” window will open and you will be able to see the number of files and subdirectories located in the directory selected. Awesome, you counted the number of files in a directory on KDE!
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.
This prints the file count per directory for the current directory level:
du -a | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
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