Hi,

I'm a unix newbie and need your help.

I need to get a count of files on our server. Number of .html files, Number of .pdf's, and Number of .ppt.

I tried:

find . -type f | wc -l

but it only give me a total count.

Thanks.

find . -name \*.pdf|wc -l
find . -name \*.html|wc -l
...

Great! That worked.

Is there a way to exclude a directory?

Thanks for your quick response.

Add your -type f back in the mix

u can use something like this find \*.{pdf,ppt} | wc -l

but it will not work bourne shell

find /home -type f | awk 'BEGIN{ FS="[/.]"}
{
 ext[$NF]++
}
END{
   print "No. of counts for pdf files is " ext["pdf"]
}'