How do I count files in a directory 1

[Tison]

I need a script to count files in a directory and its subdirectories

The results should be similar to ;
/ = 44
/bin = 100
/var = 20
/var/tmp = 2

Note: Not file sizes, but number of files

 

[victorv]

hi,

you can use

find /bin ¦ wc -l

or in a script do

Count()
{
total=`find $1 ¦ wc -l`
echo "$1 = $total"
}

Count /
Count /bin
Count /var
Count /var/tmp

Take care to this

in / you count all files on disks (and remote if mounted)
and in
/var you count also the file contained in /var/tmp

Sometime may be useful, I don't know if this is your case,
count file inside the filesystem without "traverse" it
also if the mount point of the 2nd fs is under the 1st

ex you have fs

/
/var
/home
/home/users
/usr
/usr/local
...

using

find /usr -xdev
find /home -xdev

you don't see files under /usr/local and /home/users filesystem

bye

 

[Tison]

Sorry but I need to extract the directory and subdir names with their counts.

 

[victorv]

hi,

the way may be always the find command using the flag

-type

find /var -type d for directories
find /var -type f for directories

but you have to think to the script structure

bye

 

[Ygor]

for dir in `find $PWD -type d -depth -print`
do
echo $dir = `ls -la $dir|grep ^-|wc -l`
done

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Gee that is kind of complicated for:

find /your_dir_search -type f | wc -l

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Forgot to add for multiple dirs:

for dir in / /var /bin
do
find $dir -type f | wc -l
done

Still much simpler.

 

[andyc333]

Hmm...I find that "find" is sometimes slow on larger filesystems.

You can also try:

du -a [starting point] | wc -l

This will list ALL files & directories (udnerneath) the starting point but there is no distinction between a directory and a file. For that you gotta use the find command.

 

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

After running the below code on a 200.000 files FS,I get a ksh "no space" error.

===================
for dir in `find $PWD -type d -depth -print`
do
echo $dir = `ls -la $dir|grep ^-|wc -l`
done
===================

Anything I can do about it? xargs ?

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