UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I need a list of the number of files in all (sub-)directories e.g.:

/a/b/c 1364
/a/b 125
/a 362

etc.

Should be nice to have the list sorted from high to low.

Regards,

Wim

One way.. (Include the highlighted part for high to low)

Code:

$ find /dir/location -type f | nawk -F\/ '{$NF=""; print}' OFS=\/ | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Have you considered finding all the directories and then counting the files of each from there:-

Code:

for dir in `find $top_dir -type d | sort`
do
   echo "$dir \c"
   find $dir -type f | wc -l
done | sort -nr +1

That will give you al the files from each directory and below, but of course the higher directories will have all the subdirectories included, so might not be what you want. If you need to , then perhaps you could sort this output and then for each directory, reduce the count by any direct subdirectories (i.e. take away /a/b from /a, but ignore /a/b/c)


Does this help at all, or have I missed the point?



Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn

Hi jayan_jay,

This works, thanks!
Can you please add the total number of bytes in this directory on the same row as well?

If you are happy with the above, you can adjust it to add the du command like so:-

Code:

for dir in `find $top_dir -type d | sort`
do
   echo "$dir `find $dir -type f | wc -l` `du -ks $dir`"
done | sort -nr +1

Is that any good? This gives you the Kb for each directory on it's own. If you want to count all Kb from each directory and all sub-directories, drop the s flag from the du command.


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

@rbatte1,

Can you add this in the command from jayan_jay?

Many thanks,

Wim

Code:

$ find dir_path -type f -exec ls -ltr {} \; | nawk -F\/ '{$NF=""; print}' OFS=\/ | 
nawk '{a[$NF]++ ; b[$NF]=b[$NF]+$5}END{for(i in a) print(i, a[i], b[i])}'