LXer: Simple Shell One-Liner To Enumerate File Types In Linux and Unix

LXer · 05-29-2008, 06:11 AM

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How to inventory your filesystem using a simple shell one-liner in Linux and Unix, for all shells from ash to zsh.

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partner55594039 · 05-29-2008, 12:44 PM

find -maxdepth 1 -exec file {} \;|sort -t \: -k 2|uniq -f 2 -c|sed 's/^\( *[0-9]*\).*:\(.*\)/\1\2/'

kjordan · 05-30-2008, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by partner55594039

find -maxdepth 1 -exec file {} \;|sort -t \: -k 2|uniq -f 2 -c|sed 's/^\( *[0-9]*\).*:\(.*\)/\1\2/'

Or even more simply than that:
find . -exec file -b {} \; | sort | uniq -c