Thread: UNIX Display or list number of files in a current directory

Recently I found a command that displays the Number of files in a ls command listing:

Code:

ls -l | wc -l

Above will find the number of files in a directory, and it will send o/p as pipe to the wc -l, which outputs the number of lines in its input.

To display all file including hidden and dot files, try

Code:

ls -lA | wc -l

the shortcut to ls command is

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