The obvious way to do it is:

1. Find some way to get a list of the files
2. Pipe it into wc to count

Classically, this would be find /path/to/dir | wc. However fd does the same thing with better usability. By default, fd will skip "hidden" files and directories (like .foo) and will include both files and directories.

Both behaviors can be changed by finding the appropriate CLI arguments in man fd. However, if you are in a hurry, there's no need to overcomplicate it:

fd | grep -v '/$' | wc

/$ is a regex meaning "ends with /" and -v is short for --invert-match.

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