Shell Programming and Scripting

set target_folder to choose folder with prompt "Choose target folders containing only PDFs to count files" with multiple selections allowed without invisibles
set results to ""

repeat with i from 1 to (count target_folder)
	set thisFolder to (POSIX path of item i of target_folder)
	
	(* 2 find searches need to be performed in order to have both total PDFs file count. One with all PDFs that DON'T start with letter R &  the second others that start with letter R *)


	--Find & count all PDFs in the folders selected that DON'T starts with letter R
	set fileCount to do shell script "find " & quoted form of thisFolder & " -type f  -name *.pdf -and -not -iname 'R[0-9-_]*.pdf' | wc -l"
	
	-- Delimeter results before • the bullet and convert each / to a tab
	set thisFolder to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of thisFolder & " | grep -o •.* | sed -e 's/•\\(.*\\):\\(.*\\)/\\1\\2/' -e 's/\\//        /'g"
	
	-->Results
	set results to (results & "" & thisFolder & fileCount & return)
	
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	--Find & count all PDFs in the folders selected that starts with letter R (RESENDS)
	set fileCount to do shell script "find " & quoted form of thisFolder & " -type f -iname 'R[0-9-_]*.pdf' | wc -l"
	
	
	-- Delimeter results before • the bullet and convert each / to a tab
	set thisFolder to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of thisFolder & " | grep -o •.* | sed -e 's/•\\(.*\\):\\(.*\\)/\\1\\2/' -e 's/\\//        /'g"
	
	-->Results
	set results to (results & "" & thisFolder & "RESENDS" & fileCount & return)
	
end repeat
--For testing purposes display dialog results

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--write results to "PDF File Count.txt" file
set theFilePath to (path to desktop folder as string) & "PDF File Count.txt"
set theFile to open for access file theFilePath with write permission
try
	set eof of theFile to 0
	write results to theFile
	close access theFile
on error
	close access theFile
end try

Find & count all PDFs in the folders selected that DON'T starts with letter R
   set fileCount to do shell script "find " & quoted form of thisFolder & " -type f -name *.pdf -and -not -iname 'R[0-9-_]*.pdf' | wc -l"
   
   -- Delimeter results before • the bullet and convert each / to a tab
   set thisFolder to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of thisFolder & " | grep -o •.* | sed -e 's/•\\(.*\\):\\(.*\\)/\\1\\2/' -e 's/\\// /'g"
   
   -->Results
   set results to (results & "" & thisFolder & fileCount & return)

--Find & count all PDFs in the folders selected that starts with letter R (RESENDS)
   set fileCount to do shell script "find " & quoted form of thisFolder & " -type f -iname 'R[0-9-_]*.pdf' | wc -l"
   
   
   -- Delimeter results before • the bullet and convert each / to a tab
   set thisFolder to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of thisFolder & " | grep -o •.* | sed -e 's/•\\(.*\\):\\(.*\\)/\\1\\2/' -e 's/\\// /'g"
   
   -->Results
   set results to (results & "" & thisFolder & "RESENDS" & fileCount & return)

set thisFolder to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of thisFolder & " | grep -o •.* | sed -e 's/•\\(.*\\):\\(.*\\)/\\1\\2/' -e 's/\\// /'g"