[SOLVED] directory and subdirectories

congos · 01-19-2012, 08:46 AM

im trying to write a script that finds the number of sub directories in a directory specified

kishore_ari · 01-19-2012, 08:48 AM

find <specified directory> -type d|wc -l

I hope that helps you.

thesnow · 01-19-2012, 08:52 AM

Code:

find /path/to/directory/* -type d | wc -l

This will exclude the directory itself, if you also want to count that remove the "*"
It will also not follow symlinks, if you want it to do that, add the -L option after "find"