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I want to search a server beginning at /home and list directories with more than X files
I found a hack that injects tons of files into a directory

How can I search the server recursively and list directories with more than X files?
Thank you!

like,
find /home (directories, that meet the condition that # of files directly under is is > X)


results might be like;

/home/user1/public_html/dir1/dir2

and maybe list the # of files next to it

like 432234 /home/user1/public_html/dir1/dir2

even if there are more directories under dir2, it counts just the number of files directly under it, not the total number of files which are nested inside of it

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
find . -type d  | while read mDir; do
  mTot=$(find ${mDir} -type f | wc -l)
  echo "Directory <${mDir}> has <${mTot}> files"
done

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!

When you don't quote things, they split on spaces, causing find to look for "/home/whatever/directory" "name" "with" "spaces" "in" "it" instead of "/home/whatever/directory name with spaces in it". Unless you want your variables to split/expand, you should always put them in double quotes.

Here's the difference between $var and ${var}

Code:

$ var="1234"
$ echo $var
1234
$ echo $var_

$ echo ${var}_
1234_
$

do you mean it should be find "${mDir}" and not find ${mDir}?

does the {} mean you can attach other things to it?
thanks!

#!/usr/bin/ksh
find /home -type d | while read mDir; do
mTot=$(find "${mDir}" -type f | wc -l)
if test $mTot -gt 2000
then
echo "${mDir}:${mTot}"
fi
done


i think this works
it just takes a little while to get started (but psosibly due to a lot of files, i guess it cant be any faster than this)

thanks

---------- Post updated at 04:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:16 PM ----------

sometimes it says that a directory cant be found, strange
find: /home/bbweb/public_html/media/categories/Signatures: No such file or directory


also when counting files,

can it only count what is directly under it? (either files or files + directories)

for example, it shows a lot of files under /home/vashleyb even though there are only 20 files + directories under it
/home/vashleyb should show a small number like 20 (either # of files or directories directly under it), and not the total # of files of everything under it

thanks

/home/vashleyb:16678
/home/vashleyb/public_html:16490
/home/vashleyb/public_html/gallery:12825
/home/vashleyb/public_html/gallery/albums:10569
/home/vashleyb/public_html/gallery/albums/userpics:5452
/home/vashleyb/public_html/gallery/albums/userpics:5452

---------- Post updated at 04:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:18 PM ----------

i put in -maxdepth 1

mTot=$(find "${mDir}" -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l)

which is ok now

its trying to find some directories that dont exist though, not sure why
find: /home/ultbrit/public_html/photos/albums/Ontour/Babyonemoretime/July 06 1999 - Washington DC: No such file or directory
find: /home/ultbrit/public_html/photos/albums/Ontour/House of Blues: No such file or directory

That's a bit tricky if you don't have GNU find, but:

Code:

find /path/to/dir '(' -type d -a '!' -path /path/to/dir -prune ')' -o -type f

This tells it to prune any directories which aren't /path/to/dir, which stops it from recursing deeper.