in Microsoft Windows you can right click on a folder for Properties and it will report Contains # files and # folders
Is there a way to do this in linux on the command line?
I want to know the total number of files and the total number of folders under a given folder as well as within any and all subfolders from that starting folder.
The total number of directories under the directory called dir (including dir itself):
find dir -type d -exec echo x \; | wc -l
This locates any directory in or under dir (and dir itself) and outputs an x for each. The the number of lines outputted is then counted with wc -l.
Doing it this way allows us to count also names containing newlines correctly.
The total number of non-directories (files) under dir:
find dir ! -type d -exec echo x \; | wc -l
On a system using GNU find (such as Linux), this may be sped up by replacing -exec echo x \; with -printf 'x\n'.
With the tree command, if available:
tree -a dir | tail -n 1
find dir ! -type d -exec echo x \; | wc -lI am getting invalid null command – ron Aug 08 '19 at 15:34-exec printf '%.0s\n' {} +as seen in the dup to speed it up on non-GNU systems – Stéphane Chazelas Aug 08 '19 at 15:46