AIX

Hi, what happened is we want to count all the files in a directory and inside this directory got many folders and so take long time to count it. Already run for about few minutes but still not done. The command we use to count is find . -type f | wc -l

Just wondering if there is any other faster command to count total files in these many folders?

try to run this command may will be useful

Code:

ls -lR .

Hi, I tried using ls -lR . but the count doesn't seems right.

Anyway, we managed to find out the way using perl. Thanks.

How you managed using perl ?

Hi,
Why? What for you count files in directory?
Maybe the evil witch told you?
Is it not enough that there are a lot maybe too much?
You can do you commend "find . -type f | wc -l
at background
Maybe use 'df -i" ,it's very speed. I known it not the same.
Maybe today your command "find .-type f | wc -l" try find in mounted by nfs or other network and network is damaged, of cource you see errors, maybe you redirect errors?
you can see output
"find . -type f "
Maybe bufor output is too small.
"find . -type f > new.log"
and next
wc -l new.log
or view new.log

Faster than find, but somewhat probabilistic... then again, all good algorithms are...

Code:

ls -RF | sed -e '/^$/d' -e '/.*[/@:=|>]$/d' |wc -l

i dont believe a better solution than the find command is available to achieve your requirement.. or else a super expert can help you..

i will suggest you to, try to understand why does the find takes time ? and solve it.