On Sun, 11 Jun 2000,  Karthik Vishwanath wrote about,  Counting files:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any utility which can give me the number of files in a 
> particular directory? 

Lawson used 'find'.
A more simple way is.
ls -al * | wc -l

should return all files in the PWD and its sub dirs.

> 
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.

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