On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Kliment Andreev wrote: > > How do I get a count of the files in directories? I need to be able to > > get a listing of the number of files in a directory and counts for the > > files in each sub-directory. > > % ls -l | wc -l (In a directory) > % ls -lR | wc -l (Including sub-directories)
Or, if you are looking for subtotals, something close to this might be helpful. Beware that this will include a count for the "." and ".." entries. $ for dir in `find . -type d`; do echo $dir ; ls -l $dir | wc -l; done There is probably a better way to do this. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message