Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:02:26 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Counts Message-ID: <20021202200226.GJ467@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <002301c29a3a$f38733e0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> References: <7026DC6B-0622-11D7-B566-000393681B06@lafn.org> <002301c29a3a$f38733e0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com>
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: > > How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to > > get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the > > files in each sub-directory. > > % ls -l | wc -l (In a directory) > % ls -lR | wc -l (Including sub-directories) Or, if you are looking for subtotals, something close to this might be helpful. Beware that this will include a count for the "." and ".." entries. $ for dir in `find . -type d`; do echo $dir ; ls -l $dir | wc -l; done There is probably a better way to do this. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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