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Old 08-22-2011
Question Command for total number of files (and size) across subdirectories?

Hi all...

I have a directory called dbrn. This directory contains an unknown number of subdirectories which in turn contain an unknown number of files.


What I want to know is:

How many files with extention .ABC can be found in /dbrn across all subdirecties, and what is the total size for all files with extention .ABC

I know how to do this if all files are in the root folder, but not if the files are scattered across subdirectories.

Anyone any idea on what command (with what parameters) to use to accomplish the above?

Thanx!
# 2  
Old 08-22-2011
what you tried so far ?

is it homework ?

read about the find command
# 3  
Old 09-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
what you tried so far ?
This is what I have for the folder where all files are in that very same folder:
Code:
SIZE=`ls -la /path/to/the/files/*.ABC | awk '{sum = sum + $5} END { print sum} '`
RESULTTB=`echo "scale=2;$SIZE/1099511627776"|bc`
echo "Number of ABC-type files: `ls /path/to/the/files/*.ABC | wc -l` (${RESULTTB}TB)"

But if I use this on a folder with subfolders it doesn't work.

Quote:
is it homework ?
Homework? No. Far from it. Smilie
I recently switched jobs, got a crash course Linux/Unix, and am now just putting it to the test Smilie

Quote:
read about the find command
With my n00b status, I do not really see how I can use "find" to accomplish what I want Smilie
# 4  
Old 09-01-2011
Code:
find /dbm -name '*.ABC' | wc -l

Code:
find /dbm -name '*.ABC' | xargs ls -l | awk '{total += $5} END {print total}'

# 5  
Old 09-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by yazu
Code:
find /dbm -name '*.ABC' | wc -l

This works Smilie

Quote:
Code:
find /dbm -name '*.ABC' | xargs ls -l | awk '{total += $5} END {print total}'

Upon executing this one I get
Code:
xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option

followed by lines and lines of
Code:
ls: part-of-a-folder-name: No such file or directory

Smilie
# 6  
Old 09-01-2011
for the size 'du' command works as well:
under your /dbm:
Code:
du -c --apparent-size **/*.ABC|tail -1

# 7  
Old 09-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beun
This works Smilie


Upon executing this one I get
Code:
xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option

followed by lines and lines of
Code:
ls: part-of-a-folder-name: No such file or directory

Smilie
xargs is telling you what's wrong. You have filenames with spaces, ', and other such nasties in them which are confusing it. It splits on spaces by default.

There may be ways around this if we had any idea what your system was -- but we don't.
 
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