Count the files for each sub folder?

[skeates]

Hi all.

I want to count the number of files in each sub folder of a directory structure.

At the moment I can do:

ls -1R /Folder | wc -l

Which lists the item count for all the folders as one. I can do:

ls -1R /Folder wc –l

Which lists all the folders in the top level and all the items.

Is there any way to get the list of folders and then item count for each folder?

Thanks

[abarclay]

Sounds like a bit of a homework question.....
But I'll give you the general method.
You are right about wanting to get a list of the folders, then for each one, couting the items in that folder.

First, you'd want to get a list of the contents of the current directory and write this to a file:

ls >/tmp/filelist

Now, go through each item in that file and see if its a directory. If it is, write it to a file:

cat /tmp/filelist |while read fname
do
if [ -d $fname ]
then
echo $fname
fi
done >/tmp/dirlist

Now, you'd want to go through the directory list and count the contents of each one. Use the same "while" construct as above, only read the contents of dirlist. Also, you won't need an "if" inside.