You can use Linux find command with wc command to count the number of files recursively in a directory.
Example:
Create some files and directories:
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## create complex directory structure mkdir -p mydir1/{mydir21/mydir211,mydir11/mydir111} echo "hello" > mydir1/myfile11 echo "hello" > mydir1/mydir11/myfile111 echo "hello" > mydir1/mydir11/mydir111/myfile1111 echo "world" > mydir1/myfile21 echo "world" > mydir1/mydir21/myfile211 echo "world" > mydir1/mydir21/mydir211/myfile2111 tree ## . ## └── mydir1 ## ├── mydir11 ## │ ├── mydir111 ## │ │ └── myfile1111 ## │ └── myfile111 ## ├── mydir21 ## │ ├── mydir211 ## │ │ └── myfile2111 ## │ └── myfile211 ## ├── myfile11 ## └── myfile21 |
Recursively count the number of files inside a directory:
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## Recursively counting files in a Linux directory ## find DIR_NAME -type f | wc -l find mydir1 -type f | wc -l ## returns 6 rm -rf my* |