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executing command from subdirectories

Hello,

I've been trying to run 'ls -1R | wc -l' inside of sub directories to in order to determine how big each folder is.

Code:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read folder

 do
    cd "$folder" &&
        echo "$folder has $(ls -1R | wc -l) files" &&
    cd ..
 done
or

Code:
for folder in `ls -1S`; do 
    cd "$folder" &&
        NUMFILES=$(ls -1R | wc -l)
        FOLDERLIST='  $folder contains $NUMFILES files.'
    echo $FOLDERLIST >> ../filelist.txt && 
    cd ..
done
I know the second one works as long as I ignore the errors, but it does not work with directory names with spaces.
 

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