How to count all files inside a folder, its subfolder and all . The count should not include folder count

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How to count all files inside a folder, its subfolder and all . The count should not include folder count.

I want to do it in MAC

Closely, if not the same, related to https://stackoverflow.com/q/9157138/1172302. — Nikos Alexandris, Apr 27 '19 at 22:17

score 195 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '12 at 11:40

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find . -type f | wc -l will recursively list all the files (-type f restricts to only files) in the current directory (replace . with your path). The output of this is piped into wc -l which will count the number of lines.

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Find all files under myfolder and count them using wc. This works on linux:

find myfolder -type f | wc -l

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How to count all files inside a folder, its subfolder and all . The count should not include folder count

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