Count number of files within a directory in Linux? [closed]

Question

To count the number of files in the directory, I typically use

ls directory | wc -l

But is there another command that doesn't use the wc?

Answer 1

this is one:

ls -l . | egrep -c '^-'

Note:

ls -1 | wc -l

Which means: ls: list the files in dir

-1: (that's a ONE) only each entry per line. Change it to -1a if you want to hide the files too

|: pipe output onto.

WC: wordcount

-l: the count lines.

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