How to count the number of deleted files?

Question

Debian

Good afternoon comrade friends.
There is a command for deleting old files in a folder and subfolders: is it possible to somehow display the number of files deleted? It's just that I will intercept the result in php, and for tests you need to understand.
find /path/to/folder/* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

Answer 1

No
You need to first run find and get the number of files
and then run with a parameter -deleteinstead of exec