I was showing some photos to a relative and he asked me "How many photos do you have, anyway?" That sent me down a long (but fun) rabbit hole answering that question, and a couple of followup questions, using the #Linux #commandline.
https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/cmdline/how-many-images.html
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