Count files, except the hidden files

Question

I'm trying to count all the files from the current folder and each of it's sub-folders.

find . -type f \(! -iname ".*" \) -print

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Possible duplicate of [How to count all files inside a folder, its subfolder and all . The count should not include folder count](https://stackoverflow.com/q/9769434/608639) — jww, Oct 03 '18 at 21:34

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '18 at 07:31

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You can use this find command:

find -type f ! -regex ".*/\.[^/]+$"  | wc -l

It will find all files in the current directory with filename not starting with a ., aka hidden files.

answered Oct 03 '18 at 07:31

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mstruebing · Answer 2 · 2018-10-03T07:40:15.367

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find . -type f -not -path "./.*" | wc -l

explanation:

find in the current directory(.) all things from type file(f) which does not have a path that starts with ./.(./ is prepend on every output item of find which means current directory) and then give the output to wc which is a program to count and the -l parameter tells wc to count lines.

edited Oct 03 '18 at 07:40

answered Oct 03 '18 at 07:07

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This command also list hidden files – oliv Oct 03 '18 at 07:34
Sorry, corrected it right now. Used `path` instead of `name` and this is working, tried it on my system. Thanks for the hint. – mstruebing Oct 03 '18 at 07:40
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This new command also matches hidden files nested in subdirectories – oliv Oct 03 '18 at 07:52

AHT · Answer 3 · 2018-10-03T07:35:17.357

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Just pip wc -l to it like so:

find . -type f -not -path "*/\.*" | wc -l

edited Oct 03 '18 at 07:35

answered Oct 03 '18 at 06:59

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Please note that the question is about counting non-hidden files, so you must invert the iname condition. – Bentoy13 Oct 03 '18 at 07:03
the files finish .sh doesn't count, do you now how to add it? – Jonathan Oct 03 '18 at 07:07
But without adding -iname "*.sh" – Jonathan Oct 03 '18 at 07:08
My bad, I just edited my answer. – AHT Oct 03 '18 at 07:35

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