Found this on the net:. Just a caveat for those who might use Trevoke's PowerShell answer above Windows command prompt: how to get the count of all files in current directory? This is because the Count property is only available on arrays. If fewer than 2 items are returned by Get-ChildItem, the result is scalar, and. Count returns nothing.
To get around this, explicitly cast it into an array, e. Without installing something on the server but having powershell on your workstation you could do:.
Note that if you do not include the. You will not include hidden and system files you need to add -force to count them all. If I only needed this once I'd just use dir, otherwise I'd consider rolling my own, probably as a C app because that's what I would be most familiar with although VBScript or PowerShell would also be viable. This will create a file called filecount. You can change the. So remove it if you only want files in the specified path and don't want to include files in sub folders.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Windows command prompt: how to get the count of all files in current directory? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 11 months ago. Active 4 years, 7 months ago. Viewed k times. Is there a powershell option here? Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Joey Joey 1, 11 11 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Thank you JR! This solution doesn't work well when there are millions of files.
It runs "forever" - a better solution is posted below that runs "in seconds" using PS and [System. Count — ripvlan. Show 2 more comments. Count What are we doing here? Count FYI.. I googled "powershell count files". Trevoke Trevoke 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. You need to add a filespec to make the count actually count files, as per the second example — Jim B. You must add a filter or file specification in order to get it to count files.
Count — jrsconfitto. From what I read elsewhere, it's not an array if there is one file. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to count number of files in a directory but not recursively Ask Question.
Asked 8 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. List of everything except directories. I really appreciate you breaking it out and explaining the sections, thank you for a working and well explained answer!
While all answers solve my problem, I'm choosing this one as its documented and easiest for me to understand. But thanks to everyone! If hidden files are not shown, these files are not selected.
You can also individually count a specific type of file, like only counting image files. Click the type column header to sort the files by type and then highlight the first file type you want to count. Once the first file is highlighted, hold down the Shift and while continuing to hold it down, press the down arrow to individually select files.
For lots of files, you can also hold down the Shift and press the pgdn , to highlight files a page at a time. As seen above, at the bottom of the dir output, you'll see how many files and directories are listed in the current directory. In this example, there are 23 files and 7 directories on the desktop.
To count a specific type of file in the current directory, you can use wildcards. To list the count of files in Linux, use the ls command piped into the wc command , as shown below.
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