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cy163

05-16-2009 08:01 AM

how to list the number of files in serveral sub-directories

Hello ALL,

I would like to learn how many files there are in respective sub-directories which are under a specified directory with one command.

Thanks

Disillusionist

05-16-2009 08:54 AM

Might be stretching the "one command" part, and I'm not entirely sure of what you are after, but how about:

Code:

echo "$(find . -type f|wc -l) files and $(find . -type d|wc -l) directories"

colucix

05-16-2009 11:29 AM

In one command is not so easy. If you don't restrict solution only to one-liners:

Code:

for dir in $(find . -mindepth 1 -type d)

do

  printf "%5d  %-40s\n" $(find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l) $dir

done

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