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How to find which directory has the most number of files?

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How to find which directory has the most number of files ?

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Are you looking for any command or a script? Once go through manual of find command here.

possibly the simplest way:

Code:

find . -depth -type d -print -a -exec sh -c "ls -C1 {} | wc -l " ';'

This will find all directories (starting with the current directory) and print the directory name, and on the next line print the number of files in that directory...

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashokingole (Post 4915725)

How to find which directory has the most number of files ?

original author: Shell Script To recursively display (list) directories

i've modified this shell script which display no of files in each directory.

PHP Code:




#!/bin/sh 
#filecount.sh - Counts number of files in each directory recursively. 
DIR="." 
 
function list_files() 
{ 
    cd "$1" 
    fullpath="$(pwd)" 
    echo "$fullpath :" $(find "$fullpath/" -noleaf -maxdepth 1 -type f  | wc -l) ; 
    for i in * 
    do 
        if test -d "$i" #if dictionary 
           then 
              list_files "$i" #recursively list files 
              cd .. 
          fi 
    done 
} 
 
if [ $# -eq 0 ] 
then list_files . 
exit 0 
fi

Code:

# pwd

/var/ftp



# ./filecount.sh

/var/ftp : 1

/var/ftp/pub : 0

/var/ftp/pub/abcd : 0

/var/ftp/pub/abcd/configs : 3

/var/ftp/pub/abcd/others : 0

/var/ftp/pub/centos64 : 9

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/EFI : 1

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/EFI/BOOT : 4

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/images : 4

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/images/pxeboot : 3

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/isolinux : 11

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/Packages : 6382

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/Packages/repodata : 9

/var/ftp/pub/centos64/repodata : 10

you can build further from this.

missed the directory entries (which are also files...)

ah - a contest :)

And you can get the same from:

Code:

find . -depth -type d -exec sh -c "echo -n {} :; ls -C1 {} | wc -l " ';'

Or if you wanted to sort the list afterwards....

Code:

find . -depth -type d -exec sh -c 'echo `ls -C1 {} | wc -l ` {}' ';' | sort -n -r

That way the output has the entry for the largest number of files at the top of the list,
and empty directories at the bottom (the -r option on the sort).

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpollard (Post 4916544)

Code:

find . -depth -type d -exec sh -c "echo -n {} :; ls -C1 {} | wc -l " ';'

This goes into my notes. Thanks!!! :hattip:

Might as well spruce it up a little:

Code:

find . -depth -type d -exec sh -c "echo -n {} ' '; ls -C1 {} | wc -l " ';' | sort -n -k2

--- rod.