Hello everybody, First post here, so sorry if I lack knowledge on the details... I'm doing system admin in a company and user directories here get pretty big sometimes. Not only they reach 100GB easily but they are produce millions of small files due to their work nature. So, a very "simple" old task is to check the users space consumption and, btw, check if they don't have a hot directory with many many small files, which then should be archived.
Anyway, I was looking for the most efficient way to do that and I couldn't find satisfying answer. Of course we can use find | wc, but I am really looking for a simple and efficient solution just like du exists for the file size. IMHO, obtaining the file count in a given directory seems a kind of "disk usage", and the same way that with df one can see inodes, why not having a file count option to du? I would like to know if this is against the concept of du. Otherwise I think it would help many people out there, and I might be able to contribute to its implementation. Cheers
