The same works in other places where you can copy or drag files. E.g. search results in HoudahSpot. Thus the trick is not limited to files at the top level of a folder.

You can use it with the wc command to count files. Counting Files with ‘ls’ and ‘wc’ You can count files in a directory by using the following command: ls -1 | wc -l . Here, ls -1 lists the files in a ...