linux - Count files in a directory with filename matching a string - Stack Overflow

linux - Count files in a directory with filename matching a string - Stack Overflow

I suggest to use find as shown below. The reason for that is that filenames may contain newlines which would break a script that is using wc -l. I'm printing just a dot per filename and count the dots with wc -c:

find /some/path/some/dir/ -maxdepth 1 -name 'some_mask_*.txt' -printf '.' | wc -c

or if you want to write the results to variable:

ifiles=$(find /some/path/some/dir/ -maxdepth 1 -name 'some_mask_*.txt' -printf '.' | wc -c)