Recursively counting files in a Linux directory

Question

How can I recursively count files in a Linux directory?

I found this:

find DIR_NAME -type f ¦ wc -l

But when I run this it returns

Answer 1

If what you need is to count a specific file type recursively, you can do:

find YOUR_PATH -name '*.html' -type f | wc -l 

-l is just to display the number of lines in the output.

If you need to exclude certain folders, use -not -path

find . -not -path './node_modules/*' -name '*.js' -type f | wc -l