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

I think the easiest is

  ls -ld images/* | wc -l

where images is your target directory. The -d flag limits to directories, and the -l flag will perform a per-line listing, compatible with the very familiar wc -l for line count.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

No of directory we can find using below command

ls -l | grep "^d" | wc -l

Answer 4

Best way to navigate to your drive and simply execute

ls -lR | grep ^d | wc -l

and to Find all folders in total, including subdirectories?

find /mount/point -type d | wc -l

...or find all folders in the root directory (not including subdirectories)?

find /mount/point -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l

Cheers!

Answer 5

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l

For find -mindepth means total number recusive in directories

-maxdepth means total number recusive in directories

-type d means directory

And for wc -l means count the lines of the input

Answer 6

Best way to do it:

ls -la | grep -v total | wc -l

This gives you the perfect count.