Counting files in subdirectories? 1

[madasafish]

I have used the following code and was delighted with it until today.

/usr/bin/find . -type f -iname  '*' -printf "%h\n" | uniq -c | grep content | gawk '{print substr($2,3),$1}'

The above counts files in a directory and displays

directoryname filecount

Someone pointed out to me today that it does not show the empty directories with a 0 count. I know I can do a for loop etc to get the result but would realy like it to be an efficient 1 liner if possible.

Maybe this is not right forum for this question but would appreciate any input from our learned friends on here

As always,thanks in advance,
Madasafish

 

[madasafish]

Correction to be more more clearer,

"The above counts files in a directory and displays"

should be

The above counts files in sub-directories with the name "*content" (in my case) and displays"

 

[Annihilannic]

The -iname '*' in that command was superfluous by the way.

Try this?

find . -type d -name '*content*' -printf "%f " -exec sh -c "ls \"{}\" | wc -l" \;

NB: This counts non-hidden entries in the directory in question, whether they be files or directories. You may want to use -printf "%-40f " or similar to get tidier output.

Hmm... not very awkey is it?

Annihilannic
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