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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:04:14 -0800
Subject: Re: File Counts
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From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
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Thanks to all who responded.  The approach below does just what I 
needed.


On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 12:02 US/Pacific, Nathan Kinkade wrote:

> 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
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