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How To Count Files in Directory on Linux

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As a system administrator, you are probably monitoring the disk space on your system all the time. When browsing directories on your server, you might have come across directories with a lot of files in them. Sometimes, you may want to know how many files are sitting in a given directory, or in many different directories. In other words, you want to count the number of files that are stored in a directory on your system.

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