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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers list directories with more than X files Post 302570220 by vanessafan99 on Wednesday 2nd of November 2011 04:48:23 PM
Old 11-02-2011
thanks, but there are a lot of directories and when i try to run it in /home it doesnt work

the /home directory has about 1000 accounts
and when i start the program it doesnt load

each user has probably over a thousand directories
i tried running it on one directory and it listed a thousand of them
is there a way to only list it if its more than X number of files in that directory?

and a way to speed it up in the beginning?
otherwise it will list like a million files on the screen
thanks

---------- Post updated at 03:48 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:44 PM ----------

ok i modified it a bit

what does the {'s do around the variable?

#!/usr/bin/ksh
find /home/bbweb -type d | while read mDir; do
mTot=$(find ${mDir} -type f | wc -l)
if test $mTot -gt 1000
then
echo "${mDir} ${mTot}"
fi
done


out put is something like
/home/bbweb 2470
/home/bbweb/public_html 2372
/home/bbweb/public_html/videos 1209
find: /home/bbweb/public_html/media/categories/Signatures: No such file or directory


im not sure why the last line says it cant find the directory?

thanks!
 

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