counting number of directories in a specific directory

Question

How to count the number of folders in a specific directory. I am using the following command, but it always provides an extra one.

find /directory/ -maxdept         


        

Answer 1

Some useful examples:

count files in current dir

/bin/ls -lA  | egrep -c '^-'

count dirs in current dir

/bin/ls -lA  | egrep -c '^d'

count files and dirs in current dir

/bin/ls -lA  | egrep -c '^-|^d'

count files and dirs in in one subdirectory

/bin/ls -lA  subdir_name/ | egrep -c '^-|^d'

I have noticed a strange thing (at least in my case) :

When I have tried with ls instead /bin/ls the -A parameter do not list implied . and .. NOT WORK as espected. When I use ls that show ./ and ../ So that result wrong count. SOLUTION : /bin/ls instead ls