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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK Script - Count Files In Directories Post 302279693 by beefeater267 on Friday 23rd of January 2009 02:19:08 PM
Old 01-23-2009
AWK Script - Count Files In Directories
Hey,

I'm very new to AWK and am trying to write a script that counts the number of files in all subdirectories. So, basically, my root has many subdirectories, and each subdirectory has many files.

How can I get the total count? I haven't been able to figure out how to loop through the directories to get the count of each directory and sum it all up. Any help is appreciated!

Thanks
Mike

My directory structure is like:

/root
/root/dir1
/root/dir1/file1
/root/dir1/file2....
/root/dir2
/root/dir3
/root/dir....
 

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