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

Using zsh:

a=(*(/N)); echo ${#a}

The N is a nullglob, / makes it match directories, # counts. It will neatly cope with spaces in directory names as well as returning 0 if there are no directories.