Number of files in a directory

Unix command to count number of files in present folder

ls | wc -l
If your folder has directories and files, and you want to count only files, use the below.

ls -l | grep ^[^d] | wc -l

find ./ -type f | wc -l
ls -F | grep -v -e "/" -e "@" | wc -w

Note: This will show you number of files but not any directory or symbolic links in the count.

If you would like to list out number of all the objects excluding directory then use

ls -F | grep -v "/" | wc -w

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