Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all!

I'm pretty new to bash scripting, so this should be a pretty easy question to solve.

For the last few hours, I've been creating a script that will list some of the following (based on a path I specify):
What I need help with doing is coming up with a "find" command that will do the above items (and more) by passing over all my specified directory files ONLY ONCE.

When running my script, I'll do:

Code:

./myscriptname /home/alphekka

In my bash file, if no path is specified, then I'll return an exit code of 1.

I'm guessing I'm going to need to do something like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
find $1 \( -type f $variable1 \), \( -type d $variable2 \)

Then towards the end of my script I'll do:

Code:

printf "# of files: $variable1 \n"
printf "# of directories: $variable2 \n"
printf "etc.... \n"

Hopefully this'll be an easier to solve question. I appreciate any help anybody may be able to give me. Thank you most kindly in advance!

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Sorry, I thought that was where I was posting. I'll repost there soon. Thank you!