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Old 03-02-2012
Count files in every directory

Hi all,

I'm looking over all the internet for finding how to make a count of the files for every directory apart.. not a total result for the xx directories.

For example:
-dir1
file1
file2
-subdir1
-subdir2
file1
-subdir3
file1
-dir2
-dir3
file4

desired result from script:
dir1 - 2 files
dir 1 - subdir1 - 0 files
dir 1 - subdir2 - 1 file
dir 1 - subdir3 - 1 file
dir2 - 0 files
dir3 - 1 file

Is this possible? I can't find my way to make a script or make a command line.

Any help is welcome! Thanks

Last edited by CODIII; 03-02-2012 at 09:38 AM..
# 2  
Old 03-02-2012
Code:
for x in `find /home/ -type d`; do echo -e "$x \c"; find $x -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l; done

# 3  
Old 03-02-2012
Thanks balajesuri for your quick respons, it's going in the right way!

When executing that command line, he starts to scan every folder (what is good) but i receive after every folder this error :
-e /home//NAME find: 001-2187 The option -maxdepth is not valid.
0
-e /home//NAME/.eclipse find: 001-2187 The option -maxdepth is not valid.
0
-e /home//NAME/.eclipse/RSE find: 001-2187 The option -maxdepth is not valid.
0

any idea what to do for fixing this?
# 4  
Old 03-02-2012
# 5  
Old 03-02-2012
See if this helps:

Code:
for x in `find /home/ -type d`; do echo -e "$x \c"; find $x -type f | grep -vc "^$x/[^/]*/.*"; done

# 6  
Old 03-02-2012
Many thanks Balajesuri!!!
This is what i wanted. Finally after 3 days searching on the inet!

If i just want to creat an output for this i just use this code right?
Code:
for x in `find /home/ -type d`; do echo -e "$x \c"; find $x -type f | grep -vc "^$x/[^/]*/.*"; done   >   /qsys.lib/nboghman.lib/output.file/output.mbr


Last edited by Franklin52; 03-02-2012 at 10:00 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
# 7  
Old 03-02-2012
Yes of course, and please learn the art of using code tags.
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