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I'm trying to figure out the best way to find the number of files in a particular directory when there are a very large number of files (more than 100,000). When there are that many files, performing ls | wc -l takes quite a long time to execute. I believe this is because it's returning the names of all the files. I'm trying to take up as little of the disk I/O as possible. I have experimented with some shell and Perl scripts to no avail. How can I do it?
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