How to Find the Total Number of Files in a Linux Folder

To count recursively:

for t in files links directories; do echo `find . -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null

If you don't want to recurse directories (only count files in the current dir):

for t in files links directories; do echo `find . -maxdepth 1 -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null

Result:

655 files
6 links
213 directories

Note: Directory count begins at 1 because . is counted as a directory.