Counting all .class files

I want to count all .class file in my project directory. I am working on ubuntu. I can list all the class file like this –

find . -type f -name '*.class'

It lists a lot of .class files. But I want to know the count of these .class files. Is there any way to do this in linux.

Thanks.

Answer

Use wc -l.

wc stands for “word count”, and its -l flag makes it count lines.

Since your command outputs a line per file¹, counting lines means counting files.

find . -type f -name '*.class' | wc -l

¹ please note @chepner’s comment