Posted on 12/4/11

MacMost Forum / Is There a Way To Display the Number Of Files In a Folder With a GUI Front End?

I’m trying to find a way to display the number of files in a folder with out using terminal.
For example, if I’m uploading .jpg’s to a service for printing, how can I find out how many files are in the folder that I’m uploading from? I cannot seem to find anything in Lion (10.7.2) to perform this task. I appreciate any help on this. Also if there are any OS X command line guru’s out there, how can this be done from the command line?
GUI method is preferred only because I’m lazy :)
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finch

3 Responses to “Is There a Way To Display the Number Of Files In a Folder With a GUI Front End?”

  1. Gary Rosenzweig says:
    12/4/11 at 7:26 pm

    The number of files in a folder can be displayed in many ways in Lion.
    – Select a folder and get info (Command+I)
    – With the folder open in a Finder window, look at the status bar (bar at the bottom of any Finder window). If you don’t see it, choose View, Show Status Bar.
    – In icon view for a Finder window, choose View, Show View Options and then turn on “Show item info” and then you get the number of items under each icon.
    Is that what you mean?

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    • Richard Fuhr says:
      12/4/11 at 10:13 pm

      In addition to the methods that Gary listed above, here is a way to determine the number of files of a certain type that are in a given folder.

      1. Launch Terminal and navigate to the folder of interest.

      2. Suppose, for instance, you want to know how many files in this folder have file extension jpg .

      At the prompt, enter
      ls *.jpg | wc -l

      The number of such files will be displayed after the above command has been executed.

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    • finch says:
      12/4/11 at 11:14 pm

      Ugh!!! that info has been there all along, just wasn’t observant enough to see it:
      using Command + I

      Kind: Folder
      Size: 527,611,596 bytes (527.8 MB on
      disk) for 75 items
      Where: /Users/finch/Pictures

      Thanks to all for the enlightenment.

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