Count the files in a folder
Select the folder in Finder and press ⌘I — Get Info shows how many items it holds. In Terminal, find counts every file inside it, including files in subfolders.
Without Terminal
- Select the folder in Finder.
- Press ⌘I; the number of items is listed under General.
In one command
Count every file in a folder and its subfolders:
find ~/Pictures/Holiday -type f | wc -l
Or just ask Titan
How many photos are in my Holiday folder?Do it with Titan
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