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How do I count all files on my system?

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I need to see how many files I have on my whole system. Specifically, I need to count all files from / (so on the whole system), and I need to get a number at the end. So like there are 10000 files on the whole system.

How can I accomplish this?
I hope you can help!

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answered 2 Years ago ilityushing · Accepted Answer

You can use find / to list all the files. When find's output is redirected, it outputs file names containing newlines as spanning multiple lines, so you can't just count the lines. You can output something else for each file and count the characters, though:

sudo find / -type f -printf 1 | wc -c

Without sudo, you probably can't access all the paths, so you can't count all the files.