'ls -A | wc -l' will spare you having to account for the '.' and '..' lines. Omi...

dredmorbius on Aug 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arch Linux to migrate to Systemd

'ls -A | wc -l' will spare you having to account for the '.' and '..' lines. Omitting the '-l' (redundant for your case) also spares the "totals" line.