How to count all the files in a directory

2016

ls -l -R /path | wc -l

Or:

find "/home/charles/testarea" -daystart -type f -mtime +6 | wc -l

Or:
#Delete subfolders from “/home/charles/testarea”
#clear terminal window
echo -e “\033c”
find “/home/charles/testarea” -mindepth 1 -mtime +6 -type d | while read x; do echo “———” ; echo Deleting folder “$x” ; rm -R “$x”;
done