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# 8  
Old 03-02-2012
Ok sorry didn't know that. I'm new here on this forum.

Is it also possible to have the folder with the most files on top and the folder with the lowest files at the bottom?
# 9  
Old 03-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by balajesuri
See if this helps:

Code:
for x in `find /home/ -type d`; do echo -e "$x \c"; find $x -type f | grep -vc "^$x/[^/]*/.*"; done

That is not a very robust solution. It's more complicated than it needs to be; it's not very portable (because of the echo); and, it will break on directory names with shell, echo escape, or basic regular expression metacharacters.

A better approach:
Code:
find . -type f | sed 's@/[^/]*$@@' | sort | uniq -c

Regards,
Alister
# 10  
Old 03-05-2012
Thanks Alister,

It does show me all the files form the specified folder i'm asking but it wont tell me how many files are in for example : dir 1 subdir 1 and dir 2 and dir 3 subdir 1, 2 and 3.
It just gives me a list of all the files in every dir / subdir
Any solution?
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