Question : Command line function or utility that can calculate number of files in a directory

Hello,

Is anyone aware of a DOS\Windows based command line function or utility that when run will generate the number of files in a specified folder or directory? This seems fairly straightforward but I cannot locate such a function\utility for Windows\DOS based platform. I have seen multiple command line options for UNIX.

Thanks for any assistance, this issue is urgent.

Charlie

Answer : Command line function or utility that can calculate number of files in a directory

If you just want the number returned then you can use a batch script.

Paste the script below into a text file with a .cmd extension. Customize the value of the folder variable with the folder to count files in. Running the script will echo the number of files in that folder.

                       
             @echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
 
set folder=c:\files
 
for /F %%G in ('dir "%folder%" /A:-D /B') do set /A count+=1
 
echo %count%
 
pause

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