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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting count of files and number of bytes Post 302516378 by cfajohnson on Friday 22nd of April 2011 07:27:11 PM
Old 04-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by jack1985
1) I need a shell code to count the number of files ( without directories or sub-directories ) in a directory given as arguments.
No need for an external command:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

dir=${1:-.}

shopt -s nullglob

nfiles()
{
  numfiles=$#
}

nfiles "$dir/"*
files=$numfiles

nfiles "$dir/"*/
dirs=$numfiles

printf "Files: %d\n" "$(( $files - $numfiles ))"
printf " Dirs: %d\n" "$dirs"

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       kidc [OPTIONS] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       Compile kid templates into Python byte-code (.pyc) files.

   OPTIONS:
       -f, --force
	      Force compilation even if .pyc file already exists.

       -s, --source
	      Generate .py source files along with .pyc files. This is sometimes useful for debugging.

       -d, --strip-dest-dir <destdir>
	      Strips the supplied path from the beginning of source filenames stored for error messages in the generated .pyc files

       Files  list  may  have files and/or directories. If a directory is specified, all .kid files found in the directory and any sub-directories
       are compiled.

       Usage: kidc [OPTIONS] [file...]	Compile kid templates into Python byte-code (.pyc) files.

   OPTIONS:
       -f, --force
	      Force compilation even if .pyc file already exists.

       -s, --source
	      Generate .py source files along with .pyc files. This is sometimes useful for debugging.

       -d, --strip-dest-dir <destdir>
	      Strips the supplied path from the beginning of source filenames stored for error messages in the generated .pyc files

       Files list may have files and/or directories. If a directory is specified, all .kid files found in the directory  and  any  sub-directories
       are compiled.

SEE ALSO

       The  full documentation for option is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and option programs are properly installed at your site,
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