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Old 12-13-2006, 07:53 AM   #1
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How to find the total number of files in a folder


How can i find the number of files in a perticular folder?

Aftre copying an etire folder is there a way to conform that all the files are coppied?
 
Old 12-13-2006, 08:10 AM   #2
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This will tell you the number of files in a directory.

ls | wc -l
 
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Old 12-13-2006, 08:34 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by fordeck
This will tell you the number of files in a directory.

ls | wc -l
Actually, I think that will give you the number of files and directories in a directory
 
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Old 12-13-2006, 09:04 AM   #4
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A directory is a file but its not a regular file, so the question is not clear enough
If he does not want directory, then something awfull like this should do:
echo $(($(ls -l | grep -v ^d | wc -l)-1))
 
Old 12-13-2006, 09:04 AM   #5
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That's the only way I would know to do it either, there must be a way of counting just files though. It'd be nice to get an output like:
13 files
4 directories
2 symbolic links


You could write a little script to do that cnm and post it up for us! :P

If they have the same extension you can count using:

ls *.txt | wc

You can use the diffcommand to compare two directories if you just want to ensure that it copied successfully.
 
Old 12-13-2006, 09:06 AM   #6
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13 files
4 directories
2 symbolic links

Code:
ls -l | grep ^- | wc -l
ls -l | grep ^d | wc -l
ls -l | grep ^l | wc -l

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Old 12-13-2006, 09:46 AM   #7
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Old 12-13-2006, 05:33 PM   #8
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An alternative is to use the find cmd, using -type option:

-type c
File is of type c:

b block (buffered) special

c character (unbuffered) special

d directory

p named pipe (FIFO)

f regular file

l symbolic link

s socket
 
Old 12-14-2006, 03:40 AM   #9
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Actually that's true, the grep doesn't work for regular files that have certain properties (suid,...) so here's a better one:

Code:
for t in files links directories; do echo `find . -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null
If you don't want to recurse directories (only count files in the current dir):

Code:
for t in files links directories; do echo `find . -maxdepth 1 -type ${t:0:1} | wc -l` $t; done 2> /dev/null
Result:

655 files
6 links
213 directories

And directory count begins at 1 because . is counted as a directory.
 
Old 12-14-2006, 07:33 AM   #10
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A small command line perl program to do it:
Code:
ls -l |perl -e 'while(<>){$h{substr($_,0,1)}+=1;} END {foreach(keys %h){print "$_ $h{$_}\n";}}'

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Old 12-14-2007, 06:21 AM   #11
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Use the 'tree' command. If its not present in the system by default, I recommend installing it.
It outputs a beautiful tree structure showing the files and the directories and finally printing number of files and directories in a folder.
 
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Old 03-05-2009, 10:32 PM   #12
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I did this by:

du -a | cut -d/ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

which will return the number of files in the directory + 1 (the directory itself).
 
Old 10-28-2009, 08:45 AM   #13
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how to find number of files,subfolders in a file using command

I have taken clue from previous post & come up with simplest way

Finding number of files in a folder
find . -type f | wc -l
this means output of find comand (which is only files no directories)is sent to wc which counts number of lines i.e number of files

Finding number of subfolders in a folder
(1)find . -type d | wc -l
This will give number of subfolders+1 because current folder also gets included.Note that the folders inside subfolders are also included in count.
(2)If you want to see only number of folders in current folder then
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l
Here output is numberof subfolders+1
NOTE:folders inside subfolders not considered.

If this information helps you please thank me by pressing thumbs up button.Happy hacking.

Last edited by sumeet inani; 10-28-2009 at 08:53 AM.
 
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Old 10-28-2009, 08:51 PM   #14
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Quote:
grep doesn't work for regular files that have certain properties (suid,
chmod u+s (set suid) affects the user's 'x' permission char, not the file type char ie first char in ls -l
 
Old 12-16-2010, 03:59 PM   #15
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How to find the total number of files in a folder

You can use the command

find . -type f | wc -l

=)
 
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