Fast Linux file count for a large number of files

Question

I\'m trying to figure out the best way to find the number of files in a particular directory when there are a very large number of files (more than 100,000).

When the

Answer 1

I prefer the following command to keep track of the changes in the number of files in a directory.

watch -d -n 0.01 'ls | wc -l'

The command will keeps a window open to keep track of the number of files that are in the directory with a refresh rate of 0.1 seconds.