List file count in subdirectories - one line shell script

[drodecker]

The following script seems to work well:
for f in `ls -R | grep ":" | sed "s/://"`; do echo $f `ls $f | wc -l`; done

The only limitation is that it will report errors for files containing a colon ":".

David Rodecker
Getting Local Businesses Online
localsplash.com

[ghostdog74]

The following script seems to work well:
for f in `ls -R | grep ":" | sed "s/://"`; do echo $f `ls $f | wc -l`; done

The only limitation is that it will report errors for files containing a colon ":".

David Rodecker
Getting Local Businesses Online
localsplash.com

this is an old thread.

issues with your method
1) for loop with ls -R breaks on files with spaces in their names
2) why use grep ":" and sed together , when sed is supposed to find ":" also? therefore grep is redundant
3) echo $f `ls $f | wc -l` <--- what if $f is a file instead of a directory?

[vishalcjha]

better way is : find "directory name" -type f |wc -l