Count Files under multiple directories

[rklesla]

Anyone know of a script that gives me a count of the files under all the directories under a certain directory?

Thanks,
Klesla

[UgoDeschamps]

This His the way to get the number of file under the current directory...

As for all the subdirectory, since I never tryed it, I'll write a little bash file that does this... (when I get home)

[rklesla]

Thanks. I found a way on the net for counting in the current directory.

ll -1A|wc -l

But I can't seem to have it give me results for all the sub directories and there file count. Something that can tell me the directory and what count is under it.

[UgoDeschamps]

That probably cant be done using simple bash command... I dont think its "that" powerfull...

Using C++ or Java, would make this an easy task thou

[kyku]

Using C++ or Java, would make this an easy task thou

Or even simpler using something like Perl or Python:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, sys

def numOfFiles(dir):
  count = 0
  for tup in os.walk(dir): count += len(tup[2])
  return count

for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
  print arg, '->', numOfFiles(arg)

If you insist on using bash, it could be possible to use -R -1 flags and strip blank lines together with those ending with colons (subdirs). Look for pattern mathing in the bash manual page.
Hope you'll handle the problem soon, best regads.

[Santa's little helper]

I thought this might be a homework question so I didn't
answer earlier but since a script has been posted already
here's my effort using C-shell:

set a = "`find . -print0`" ; echo $#a

This assuming that the current directory is the one we're
interested in.Otherwise replace the . (dot) after find by
the name of the directory.The count will include the head
directory.If you don't want that , subtract 1 from the value of $#a

[kyku]

I thought this might be a homework question so I didn't
answer earlier but since a script has been posted already
here's my effort using C-shell:

set a = "`find . -print0`" ; echo $#a

This assuming that the current directory is the one we're
interested in.Otherwise replace the . (dot) after find by
the name of the directory.The count will include the head
directory.If you don't want that , subtract 1 from the value of $#a

It seems to count the number of everything in the current directory, but the question is about files. Or am I wrong?

[Santa's little helper]

When you say files do you mean just regular files ? I assumed the
question was about all kinds of files ie regular files , links , directories etc.

But anyway if one wants to exclude directories say they could write

set a = "`find . \! -type d -print0`" ; echo $#a

Or to exclude directories and links

set a = "`find . \! -type l \! -type d -print0`" ; echo $#a

[Santa's little helper]

Oh , yeah , forgot to say that a solution like ls -l | wc -l or
similar will only give the correct result only if no file name contains a newline character.This is almost certain but not 100% .

[naimur]

ls -laR | wc -l


will recursivly count files