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Old 02-15-2011
command to verify number of files

Guy's

I have file system called /appspft has millions of files and I want to know exactly how many file under it

Pls advice with that command to verify number of files ..
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Old 02-15-2011
A quick search brought up this.
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Old 02-15-2011
Ty using command ls directory name | wc -l it will count the no. files as well no. of directories.

Regards
Ahmed
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Old 02-15-2011
CPU & Memory find command
you can use the following find command:

Code:
find /appspft/* -print | wc -l

the * is necessary because its prevent from the up directory to be include in the count (see example below)

this will include folder in the count if you want to exclude the you can use the -type in the find command like this:

Code:
find /appspft/* -type f -print

Code:
# find /appspft/* -print | wc -l 
      10

# find /appspft/* -type f -print | wc -l
       7

# find /appspft/* -print
/appspft/appspft1
/appspft/appspft2
/appspft/appspft3
/appspft/appspft4
/appspft/dir1
/appspft/dir1/appspft1
/appspft/dir2
/appspft/dir2/appspft2
/appspft/dir3
/appspft/dir3/appspft3

# find /appspft/* -type f -print
/appspft/appspft1
/appspft/appspft2
/appspft/appspft3
/appspft/appspft4
/appspft/dir1/appspft1
/appspft/dir2/appspft2
/appspft/dir3/appspft3


hope this help.
Last edited by pludi; 02-15-2011 at 10:45 AM.. Reason: added code tags, removed self promotion
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