Question

I have problem with number of files in directory

I use

$(ls /test -l | grep '^-' | wc -l)

but this way I retrieve just number of files in the same path but don’t retrieve number of files in subdirectors
if I have

  /test/1
  /test/1/2
  /test/1/3
  /test/1/4/1
  /test/1/4/2
  /test/1/5

my question is how to retrieve number of files in /test ?
Thanks for advice.

Answer 1

try this

targetDir=/test
find ${targetDir} -type f | wc -l

I hope this helps.