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# 1  
Old 02-16-2010
Question Number of files per directory
Hi Guys,

I am trying to display the total number of files within a directory (including sub dirs): i.e.

Code:
solaris>  du -sh * | sort +0rn 
1009K   cron
 940K   lib
 849K   svc
 489K   cacao
 261K   opt
 212K   preserve
 167K   dt

But instead of the size I would like the number of files and there equiv dir.

Thanks in advance!!!!SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-16-2010 at 10:37 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 02-16-2010
Dont know...
I would use
Code:
ls -lR| wc -l

But the proper way would be to use find, so look at the man pages of find, especially -type option
# 3  
Old 02-16-2010
that would give me the entire number of files in the dir and recursivly as a single interger. not per directory basis i.e.

Directory Number of Files (incl sub dirs)
/var 112312
/etc 35210

and so on

but thanks for responding tho

---------- Post updated at 11:20 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:14 AM ----------

I have found this command that works on Linux (RHEL5) but doesnt work on Solaris and also is too granular and indicates the size of each sub dir and doesnt just give me the total instead:

find . -type f | awk '{dir=gensub(/(.+\/).+/,"\\1","g",$0); dir_list[dir]++} END {for (d in dir_list) printf "%s %s\n",d,dir_list[d]}' | sort
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# 4  
Old 02-16-2010
One approach:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
(
find . -type d -print|sort|while read DIR
do
        FILES_TOT=`find "${DIR}" -type f -print|wc -l`
        echo "${FILES_TOT} ${DIR}"
done
) | sort -n -r

# 5  
Old 02-16-2010
or awk -
Code:
find /path -type f -exec dirname {} \; | 
    awk -F '/' {arr[$2]++} END { for (i in arr) { print i, arr[i] } }' | sort

for top level directories only
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 02-16-2010 at 04:04 PM.. Reason: change $1 to $2
# 6  
Old 02-17-2010
Thanks for your response guys:

Meth: thats good! but is there a way that it can just give my the total number of files within the dir instead of each one? group them together ie. from root: /var 100234 which includes all of /var subdirs. /etc 1323423 which includes all /etc subdirs.


Jim: I keep getting an error with your awk version:

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(i'
syntax error near unexpected token `('

nice work btw.
# 7  
Old 02-17-2010
This would seem to be closer to your requirement. First find the names of the directories then count the number of files (excluding anything which is not a file) in each top level directory. If you are counting files in areas like /usr and /var it is usually necessary to stop "find" following links into other filesystems.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
(
ls -lad ./*|grep \^dr|awk '{print $9}'|while read SUBDIR
do
        COUNTER=`find "${SUBDIR}" -xdev -type f -print|wc -l|sed -e "s/ //g"`
        echo "${COUNTER} ${SUBDIR}"
done
) 2>&1 | sort -n -r
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