List number of files in a particular folder – Linux Command
Determine how many files there are in the current folder/directory:
many ways 
1. list files and folders:
[root@server1]#
du -a /folders/test | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
17616 data
2. list files and folders
[root@server1]#
ls -Ra1 /folders/test|grep -v /|grep -vx ""|grep -vx "\.*"|wc -l
17731
3. list files:
[root@server1]#
find /folders/test/ -name "*.*" -print | wc -l
17681
4. list files , links and folders:
[root@server1]#
for t in files links directories; do echo `find /folders/test/ -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null
17570 files
0 links
24 directories
5. list only files:
[root@server1]#
for t in files; do echo `find /folders/test/ -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null
17556 files
