command to verify number of files

UNIX AIX
1

Guy's

I have file system called /appspft has millions of files and I want to know exactly how many file under it

Pls advice with that command to verify number of files ..

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A quick search brought up this.

3

Ty using command ls directory name | wc -l it will count the no. files as well no. of directories.

Regards
Ahmed

4

you can use the following find command:

find /appspft/* -print | wc -l

the * is necessary because its prevent from the up directory to be include in the count (see example below)

this will include folder in the count if you want to exclude the you can use the -type in the find command like this:

find /appspft/* -type f -print

# find /appspft/* -print | wc -l 
      10

# find /appspft/* -type f -print | wc -l
       7

# find /appspft/* -print
/appspft/appspft1
/appspft/appspft2
/appspft/appspft3
/appspft/appspft4
/appspft/dir1
/appspft/dir1/appspft1
/appspft/dir2
/appspft/dir2/appspft2
/appspft/dir3
/appspft/dir3/appspft3

# find /appspft/* -type f -print
/appspft/appspft1
/appspft/appspft2
/appspft/appspft3
/appspft/appspft4
/appspft/dir1/appspft1
/appspft/dir2/appspft2
/appspft/dir3/appspft3

hope this help.