Find count of files matching a pattern in a directory in linux

Question

I am new to linux. I have a directory in linux with approx 250,000 files I need to find count of number of files matching a pattern.

I tried using following command :

Answer 1

The MacOS / OS X command line solution

If you are attempting to do this in the command line on a Mac you will soon find out that find does not support the -printf option.

To accomplish the same result as the solution proposed by fedorqui-supports-monica try this:

find . -name "pattern_*" -exec stat -f "." {} \; | wc -l

This will find all files matching the pattern you entered, print a . for each of them in a newline, then finally count the number of lines and output that number.

To limit your search depth to the current directory, add -maxdepth 1 to the command like so:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "196288.*" -exec stat -f "." {} \; | wc -l