On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. The approach below does just what I needed.
Here's another way I don't see listed: $ find . -type f | wc -l This means "find, starting right here, all files here and in subdirectories - then pipe the output through word count just the lines." You'd think FreeBSD would have a command similar to ls, df, du or a flag to the find command such as "-countitems" or something. > On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 12:02 US/Pacific, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > 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 > -- Doug -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
