Count files in a directory under UNIX

September 19, 2009 (late afternoon)

Note to self:

A few ways to count files in a directory under UNIX:

ls | wc -l

For recursive:

find . -print | wc -l

Using filename matching:

find . -name \*.jpg -print | wc -l

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