Re: Report on files by type

2010-03-11 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11 PM, G Rundlett greg.rundl...@gmail.comwrote: Indeed it does take a while to run file on tens of thousands of files. I came across this, http://www.pldaniels.com/filetype/ which is interesting in case somebody else is looking for a library. For my immediate

Re: Report on files by type

2010-03-11 Thread G Rundlett
I came across a java app called jdiskreport. It scans a file tree and can saves the result. It displays a pie that you can drill down. Size, number of files, file type, modification time. It's also cross platform on java. Cool, that's what I was looking for. Greg Rundlett

Report on files by type

2010-03-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I got a drive from someone today, with 3.2 GB worth of content on it, and I quickly wanted to find out what was on the drive by 'content type' (mime-type) find -type f | egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | sort | uniq -c did the trick for me, but left me wondering what File Manager or other tool does a

Re: Report on files by type

2010-03-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: find -type f | egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | sort | uniq -c Doesn't that regex miss files with single-character extensions, such as C source (.c) and header (.h) files? I would suggest instead:

Re: Report on files by type

2010-03-10 Thread G Rundlett
Indeed it does take a while to run file on tens of thousands of files. I came across this, http://www.pldaniels.com/filetype/ which is interesting in case somebody else is looking for a library. For my immediate needs, the one-liner or script like Ben wrote is sufficient. Thanks, Greg Rundlett