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		bendaid on Sept 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier tree does this, don't know about suppressing the actual tree, but it tells you number of files and dirs printed at the end.

laumars on Sept 10, 2013 | [–]

A regex match will do that easily enough:

    tree | egrep -o "[0-9]+ file(s|)"

edit: or you could just tail the output (should have thought of this first!)

    tree | tail -n1

ck2 on Sept 10, 2013 | [–]

alas it does not show file count per subdirectory

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