Finding the Number of Files (inodes) in a Directory on Linux

By Eric Ma | | On Jul 13, 2013

On Linux, to find the number of files (inodes) in a directory:

$ find ./ | wc -l

to find the number of files (not directories) in a directory:

$ find ./ -type f | wc -l

to find the number of directories in a directory:

$ find ./ -type d | wc -l

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2 comments:

Pan says:

Mar 7, 2013 at 12:35 am

Number of inodes != Number of files

As in, you can’t guarantee 1 file uses 1 Node!!!!!!!!!!!

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1. Zhiqiang Ma says:
  
  Mar 7, 2013 at 1:10 am
  
  Can you give some examples that 1 file uses more than 1 inodes?
  
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