As a system administrator, you are probably monitoring the disk space on your system all the time.
When browsing directories on your server, you might have come across directories with a lot of files in them.
Sometimes, you may want to know how many files are sitting in a given directory, or in many different directories.
In other words, you want to count the number of files that are stored in a directory on your system.
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