Hi,
You could try find command. I suppose it will work faster than ls and also the issue due to huge no. of files to be tried should disappear.
In case you are sure all the files are located directly under one directory, you could also use maxdepth with find. This would prevent find cmd from recursively searching all the subdirectories located underneath the directory in focus.
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I've written a script to count the total size of SAN storage LUNs, and also display the LUN sizes.
From server to server, the LUNs sizes differ.
What I want to do is count the occurances as they occur and change.
These are the LUN sizes:
49.95
49.95
49.95
49.95
49.95
49.95
49.95
49.95... (2 Replies)
I need to count the number of occurrences of a pattern, say 'key', between each occurrence of a different pattern, say 'lu'.
Here's a portion of the text I'm trying to parse:
lu S1234L_149_m1_vg.6, part-att 1, vdp-att 1 p-reserver IID 0xdb
registrations:
key 4156 4353 0000 0000
... (3 Replies)
Hello, I'm trying to create a BASH file that can read all the files in my working directory and tell me how many words and lines are in that file. I wrote the following code:
FILES="*"
for f in "$FILES"
do
echo -e `wc -l -w $f`
done
My issue is that my file is outputting in one... (4 Replies)
how to count the total number of lines of all the files under a directory using perl script..
I mean if I have 10 files under a directory then I want to count the total number of lines of all the 10 files contain. Please help me in writing a perl script on this. (5 Replies)
Hi,
Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time..
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi!
I just want to count number of files in a directory, and write to new text file, with number of files and their name
output should look like this,,
assume that below one is a new file created by script
Number of files in directory = 25
1. a.txt
2. abc.txt
3. asd.dat... (20 Replies)
hi I am trying to write a script to count the number of files, with slightly different subset name, in a directory
for example, in directory /data, there are a subset of files that are name as follow
/data/data_1_(1to however many).txt
/data/data_2_(1 to however many).txt... (12 Replies)
I have a directory of files, each with a variable (though small) number of lines. I would like to go through each line in each file, and print the:
-file name
-line number
-number of matches to the pattern /comp/ for each line.
Two example files:
cat... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pathunkathunk
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
grep
GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)NAME
grep - search a file for a pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [ option ... ] pattern [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches the input files (standard input default) for lines (with newlines excluded) that match the pattern, a regular expression as
defined in regexp(6). Normally, each line matching the pattern is `selected', and each selected line is copied to the standard output.
The options are
-c Print only a count of matching lines.
-h Do not print file name tags (headers) with output lines.
-i Ignore alphabetic case distinctions. The implementation folds into lower case all letters in the pattern and input before interpre-
tation. Matched lines are printed in their original form.
-l (ell) Print the names of files with selected lines; don't print the lines.
-L Print the names of files with no selected lines; the converse of -l.
-n Mark each printed line with its line number counted in its file.
-s Produce no output, but return status.
-v Reverse: print lines that do not match the pattern.
Output lines are tagged by file name when there is more than one input file. (To force this tagging, include /dev/null as a file name
argument.)
Care should be taken when using the shell metacharacters $*[^|()= and newline in pattern; it is safest to enclose the entire expression in
single quotes '...'.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/grep.c
SEE ALSO ed(1), awk(1), sed(1), sam(1), regexp(6)DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is null if any lines are selected, or non-null when no lines are selected or an error occurs.
GREP(1)