[SUMMARY] counting the number of files under an entire directory tree

Wow,

Less than 5 minutes and got several replies.  The simpliest which I needed,
to count EVERYTHING under a directory was to use:  find <directory> | wc -l

There are other ways to only count symlinks, directories, or files using
'find'.  For example only looking for files, use:  find /usr -type f | wc
-l

Thanks to everyone who replied with the answers!

Kevin



---original question---

We have a directory with a huge number of directories and subdirectories,
sub-subdirectories, and files.  Does anyone know a command or a series of
piped commands (presumably including 'wc') to count exactly the number of
files and directories under a specific directory?

ES40 running Tru64 5.1a.