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How to count all the files in a directory

  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