How to count all subfolders in an directory?

Question

How can I count how many folders (including subfolders) I have under an specific folder?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '09 at 08:46

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Use find to select the directories and wc to count them.

find <directory> -mindepth 1 -type d | wc -l

answered Jul 20 '09 at 08:46

Dan Carley

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '09 at 09:56

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tree -d | grep directories | awk -F' ' '{print $1}'

answered Jul 20 '09 at 09:56

dyasny

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