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# 1  
Old 10-18-2014
Printing a 2 column output using scripts
Hi, I'm fairly new to scripting and Unix. I'm having trouble printing the number of directories and number of files in all the directories in 2 columns using scripts.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

echo  "# of Directories --------- # of Messages/Files "
numDir= $(find . -type d | wc -l)

numMsg= $(find . -type f | wc -l)

echo " $numDir ----------- $numMsg "

Everytime I try to run it using ./count.bash, it gives me an error of
Quote:

# of Directories --------- # of Messages/Files
./count.bash: line 4: 1: command not found
./count.bash: line 6: 1: command not found
Can anyone help me?
# 2  
Old 10-18-2014
No spaces around the `='
Code:
numDir=$(find . -type d | wc -l)

numMsg=$(find . -type f | wc -l)

# 3  
Old 10-18-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
No spaces around the `='
Code:
numDir=$(find . -type d | wc -l)

numMsg=$(find . -type f | wc -l)

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# 4  
Old 10-18-2014
I am taken. Smilie
Glad to help.
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# 5  
Old 10-21-2014
You could use printf to help format you output a little better:

Code:
FMT="%16s -------- %-19s\n"

printf "$FMT" "# of Directories" "# of Messages/Files"
numDir=$(find . -type d | wc -l)
numMsg=$(find . -type f | wc -l)
printf "$FMT" $numDir $numMsg

Output would end up like this:

Code:
# of Directories -------- # of Messages/Files
              12 -------- 108

See how the -19s format is 19 wide left-justified and 16s is 16 wide right-justified.
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