How to count number of files in each directory?

Question

I am able to list all the directories by

find ./ -type d

I attempted to list the contents of each directory and count the number of files i

Answer 1

Assuming you have GNU find, let it find the directories and let bash do the rest:

find . -type d -print0 | while read -d '' -r dir; do
    files=("$dir"/*)
    printf "%5d files in directory %s\n" "${#files[@]}" "$dir"
done