This might be quicker than firing up a shell script: > lc /dir" will count the number of files in /dir find /dir -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l > and "lc /dir

This might be quicker than firing up a shell script: > lc /dir" will count the number of files in /dir find /dir -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l > and "lc /dir/*" will count the files in subdirectories of /dir. find /dir -type f -mindepth 2 | wc -l