How can I search for number of .txt in my Folder

Question

how can I search for the number of txt Files in my Folder. i tried many things but nothing works.

ls -1 *txt gave the list of txt's but i Need the number!

I also tried some combinations but that didnt work also. ls-1 *txt | wc -1

hopefully you can help me thank you.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 19:18

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In your command, you do wc -1 it's not correct. you change letter 1 by l and it will work

i hope that help you

answered Jul 06 '18 at 19:18

Ahmed

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 09:23

some ways of doing this task:

recursively

find . | grep -c '\.txt$'
1.1 . is for current working directory and all sub-direcotores
2.1 -c is for counting
find . -name \*.txt | wc -l
2.1 -name is for matching
2.2 -l is for counting

non-recursively

ls -1 *.txt | wc -l
perl -le '++$n for <*.txt>; END{ print $n }'
2.1 increase $n for each *.txt and print it at the END

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