Counting all files in a directory (and subdirectories)

[branneman]

Check this one out, I pondered a bit with a friend of me on this one, and we got a few solutions in the direction we wanted.

Its on my website as well: bran.name/dump/bash-build-aggregated-sorted-list-of-file-extensions-in-a-directory-and-count

This is the one I used eventually:

find . -type f -exec basename "{}" \; | rev | cut -d . -f1 | rev | sort  | uniq  -c | sort  -rn

This one works aswell, its regex based, and thus I expect it to be slower compared to cut.

find . -type f -exec basename "{}" \; | sed -e 's/.*\.//gi' | sort  | uniq  -c | sort  -rn

[MikeTbob]

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