Is there a bash command which counts files?

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This simple one-liner should work in any shell, not just bash:

ls -1q log* | wc -l

ls -1q will give you one line per file, even if they contain whitespace or special characters such as newlines.

The output is piped to wc -l, which counts the number of lines.

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