Number of items in a directory

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1

This should be so simple.. I have folder with about 27 subfolders in it, each folder has a number of fonts in it.. how do I get the total number of fonts for all subfolders?

2

Assuming no embedded newlines in the filenames:

find . -type f|wc -l
3

Assuming that your fonts have the extension .ttf

find . -type f -name '*.ttf' -print | wc -l