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Is there a bash command which counts the number of files that match a pattern?
For example, I want to get the count of all files in a directory which match this pattern: log*
This simple one-liner should work in any shell, not just bash:
ls -1q will give you one line per file, even if they contain whitespace or special characters such as newlines.
The output is piped to wc -l, which counts the number of lines.