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How to get number of files in directory

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How do you find out the number of files in a directory from the command line?

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Populate an array of the file names and then print how many entries are in the array:

$ files=( * )
$ echo "${#files[@]}"
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That will work correctly even if your file names contain newlines, unlike anything piped to wc -l.

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Doesn't count dotfiles (1 comment)
Fails if directory is empty (1 comment)
Fails if directory is empty
Quasímodo‭ wrote about 1 year ago

Fails if directory is empty, but shopt -s nullglob will address that edge case.