Number of files in all (sub-)directories

deleriumdog · #1 06-19-2012

Hi,

I need a list of the number of files in all (sub-)directories e.g.:

/a/b/c 1364
/a/b 125
/a 362

etc.

Should be nice to have the list sorted from high to low.

Regards,

Wim

jayan_jay · #2 06-19-2012

One way.. (Include the highlighted part for high to low)

Code:

$ find /dir/location -type f | nawk -F\/ '{$NF=""; print}' OFS=\/ | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

rbatte1 · #3 06-19-2012

Have you considered finding all the directories and then counting the files of each from there:-

Code:

for dir in `find $top_dir -type d | sort`
do
   echo "$dir \c"
   find $dir -type f | wc -l
done | sort -nr +1

deleriumdog · #4 06-19-2012

Hi jayan_jay,

This works, thanks!
Can you please add the total number of bytes in this directory on the same row as well?

rbatte1 · #5 06-19-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbatte1

Have you considered finding all the directories and then counting the files of each from there:-

Code:

for dir in `find $top_dir -type d | sort`
do
   echo "$dir \c"
   find $dir -type f | wc -l
done | sort -nr +1

That will give you al the files from each directory and below, but of course the higher directories will have all the subdirectories included, so might not be what you want. If you need to , then perhaps you could sort this output and then for each directory, reduce the count by any direct subdirectories (i.e. take away /a/b from /a, but ignore /a/b/c)

Does this help at all, or have I missed the point?

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn

If you are happy with the above, you can adjust it to add the du command like so:-

Code:

for dir in `find $top_dir -type d | sort`
do
   echo "$dir `find $dir -type f | wc -l` `du -ks $dir`"
done | sort -nr +1

deleriumdog · #6 06-19-2012

@rbatte1,

Can you add this in the command from jayan_jay?

Many thanks,

Wim

jayan_jay · #7 06-29-2012

Code:

$ find dir_path -type f -exec ls -ltr {} \; | nawk -F\/ '{$NF=""; print}' OFS=\/ | 
nawk '{a[$NF]++ ; b[$NF]=b[$NF]+$5}END{for(i in a) print(i, a[i], b[i])}'

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