Counting hidden files with a tree
You may wish to count hidden files on your system in various instances.
Hidden files are not printed in the terminal output by default when using the “tree“, “find“, or “ls” commands.
To count hidden files with the tree, run “tree” and add the “-a” option for “all,” followed by the directory to be inspected.
tree -a <directory>
How to Count Files in Directory Recursively in Linux
When exploring directories on your server, you may have come across folders with a large number of files in them. You might wish to know how many files exist in a certain directory or across many directories at times. To put it another way, you wish to count the number of files saved in a directory on your system. In this article, we are going to see how you can easily count files in a directory on Linux.
There are 7 different methods for Counting Files in Directory Recursively in Linux:
- Method 1: Count files using wc
- Method 2: Basic file counting
- Method 3: Count files recursively using the find command
- Method 4: Counting with directories
- Method 5: Directory depth
- Method 6: Counting hidden files with the tree command
- Method 7: Counting files using GUI
Let’s go through all the methods one by one.