Windows command prompt: how to get the count of all files in current directory?

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Published on 2010-02-08T17:12:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 2:43 UTC
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command-prompt

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cmd

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What command would you use in cmd.exe to find the number of files in the current directory?

Is there a powershell option here?

Update: I was hoping to avoid dir, as I know there are 10,000+ files in the current directory. Wanted to avoid the enumeration output to the cmd window. Thank you!

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