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

This can also be done with looping over ls instead of find

for f in */; do echo "$f -> $(ls $f | wc -l)"; done

Explanation:

for f in */; - loop over all directories

do echo "$f -> - print out each directory name

$(ls $f | wc -l) - call ls for this directory and count lines