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Linux find hidden files in path

If you want to find any hidden files (Files with a dot first), you can use this command:

find ./ -name '.*'

You can change ./ to be /var/www to find any hidden files in /var/www

You can use this command to get the list of the number of file in current directory

ls -1 ./ | wc -l

Or

ls -1 /var/log | wc -l

to get the number of files in /var/log