Counting file with linux command

Question

I am a new linux user. I am trying to count all of file files in the home(~) directory. So did it in the following steps -

1. ls -1 > fileCount # list each file in separate line and places them in fileCount
2. wc -l fileCount # word count from the file fileCount

The procedure above gives me the correct file count. But it is a bit lengthy process and require a file to be generated.

Is there any better way to count all the file from the current directory?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can try with this

ls -1 | wc -l

Hope this helps