How do you count how many files are in a folder in Linux machine?

Answer 1

I suppose the easiest way to do that would be to use ls and pipe it to word count

ls | wc -l

the -l switch is for number of Lines

for all files, including hidden files (ie .xfce4) use

ls -a | wc -l

hope i could help

Answer 2

To list the count of files in Linux use the ls command piped into the wc command as shown below.

ls -l | wc -l

You can also add the grep command to find a more exact count of the files you wish to count as shown below.

ls -l | grep ^a | wc -l