List directory structure with files

[danno74]

Greetings!

I am trying to find a way to list a directory tree with the files that are included in each directory. I foudn a script that will list the directory tree itself, but not list the files in the directories:

http://www.centerkey.com/tree/

I also know that by using ls -Rl I can get just a standard output of the folders with their contents, but i would like to somehow get the script to do this in an easier to read format.

I also came across this, but I don't know how to get it to work. I copied and pasted it into a .sh file and tried to run it, but I cannot get it to run correctly:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/628662/unix-command-to-list-folders-with-file-counts

I am running Solaris 10.

Thanks for any suggestions or recommendations you can share.

- Dan

 

[feherke]

Hi

tried to run it

How ?

but I cannot get it to run correctly

Why do you think so ?

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[danno74]

find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do 
    count=$(find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.jpg | wc -l)
    echo "$dir ; $count"
done

This is fl.sh. I attempt to run it:

./fl.sh

I get:

# ./fl.sh
find: illegal option -- m
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list

I know it doesn't like -maxdepth. I try to put a '.' after find and get the following:

# ./fl.sh
find: bad option -maxdepth
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
#

And it is at this point I conclude it isn't running correctly, and don't know enough about unix to troubleshoot further, throw my hands in the air and write a post here

Thanks for the quick glance.

 

[feherke]

Hi

There is nothing to troubleshoot. Try it with [tt]/usr/xpg4/bin/find[/tt] too, and neither that supports the -maxdepth option, that script is not for your operating system.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[cptk]

easier to read format ??? Can you be more specific ...

How about this:

ls -Rp | egrep -v '\/$|\.:'

The "p" argument appends a slash '/' after each dir name, thus allowing the egrep -v to remove these dirs (as well as the current dir '.:' element). Otherwise, these dirs would be recursively listed, and thus would be a distraction - I'm guessing you don't want them to appear twice in your format.

 

[feherke]

Hi

On Linux systems used to be a [tt]tree[/tt] command, which is quite flexible and produces easy to read output. I would give it a try first.

Probably you not have it, so get its source from ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/ and try to build it. Its Makefile has Solaris-specific settings too, you just have to uncomment them.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[danno74]

Thank you both for the suggestions. We are looking to take an inventory of our campus web tree, to see what is out there in a couple different formats. Just something I need to tweak until our web team has something we like the look of.

Thanks again, I'll look into what you have given me.

 

[vodkadrinker]

This gives a nice format:-

find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'

 

[PHV]

Have a look at my reply here:
thread822-1414557

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[Annihilannic]

That raises an interesting challenge... I was trying to figure out how to do something like that, but remove the hanging branches, e.g. instead of this:

.
|____FIC
|____Jazmania
|____actoab
| |____ab123
| | |____ab3423
| | | |____ab12351
| |____ab384
| |____ab435
| |____backup
| | |____ac123
| | | |____ac3423
| | | | |____ac12351
| | |____ac384
| | |____ac435

Display this:

.
|____FIC
|____Jazmania
|____actoab
  |____ab123
  | |____ab3423
  |   |____ab12351
  |____ab384
  |____ab435
  |____backup
    |____ac123
    | |____ac3423
    |   |____ac12351
    |____ac384
    |____ac435

But I couldn't come up with a straightforward algorithm for it... too much looking forward and backtracking. Any bright ideas?

Annihilannic.