Is there any way of calculating inodes for a directory?

Question

Could anybody tell me how to count number of inodes of files inside a directory ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is one inode per directory, and one for each file in it. If you symlink a file, the symlink gets it's own unique inode as well. (I'm sure someone will correctly me if I've missed any edge cases.)

List the inode number of each file:

ls -i

To count the number of files in the current directory:

ls -1 | wc -l

see also: How to count number of files in multiple directories