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How can I find the number of files on a filesystem?

I want to know how many files I have on my filesystem. I know I can do something like this: find / -type f | wc -l This seems highly inefficient. What I'd really like is to do is find the total ...
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How do I count all the files recursively through directories

I want to see how many files are in subdirectories in there subdirectories to find out where all the inode usage is on the system. Kind of like I would do this for space usage du -sh /* which will ...