Try:

ls -b1A | wc -l

The -b will have non-printable characters, -A will show all files except . and .. and one per line (the default on a pipe, but good to be explicit).

As long as we're including higher-level scripting languages, here's a one-liner in Python:

python -c 'import os; print len(os.listdir(os.sep))'

Or with full 'find':

python -c 'import os; print len([j for i in os.walk(os.sep) for j in i[1]+i[2]])'

ls

Try:

ls -b1A | wc -l

The -b will escape non-printable characters, -A will show all files except . and .., and one per line (the default on a pipe, but good to be explicit).

Python

As long as we're including higher-level scripting languages, here's a one-liner in Python:

python -c 'import os; print(len(os.listdir(os.sep)))'

Or with full 'find':

python -c 'import os; print(len([j for i in os.walk(os.sep) for j in i[1]+i[2]]))'

Try:

ls -b1A | wc -l

The -b will have non-printable characters, -A will show all files except . and .. and one per line (the default on a pipe, but good to be explicit).

Try:

ls -b1A | wc -l

The -b will have non-printable characters, -A will show all files except . and .. and one per line (the default on a pipe, but good to be explicit).

As long as we're including higher-level scripting languages, here's a one-liner in Python:

python -c 'import os; print len(os.listdir(os.sep))'

Or with full 'find':

python -c 'import os; print len([j for i in os.walk(os.sep) for j in i[1]+i[2]])'