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- /2009/12/number-of-files-in-folder-and-subfolders
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- linux
date: 2009-12-10 18:16
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slug: number-of-files-in-folder-and-subfolders
title: number of files in a folder and subfolders

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<p>
 folders are not counted
 <br/>
 <code>
  find . -type f | wc -l
 </code>
</p>