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List folders by the number of files inside of it, recursively
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This one line command will list each folders in current path by the number of files inside of it, recursively.

find . -type d -exec sh -c "fc=\$(find '{}' -type f | wc -l); echo \"\$fc\t{}\"" \; | sort -nr

For only one/specified level of recursion :

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c "fc=\$(find '{}' -type f | wc -l); echo \"\$fc\t{}\"" \; | sort -nr
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