Using Find command

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Hi Friends,

I need to find out the number of files available in each directory.
It should list no of files and directory name.

For ex. if there are directories like : /home/Dir1/Dir2/Dir3

I need the output like the following:

Dir1 - x no of files
Dir2 - y no of files
Dir3 - z no of files.

Can anyone can let me know how to find this information using find command please?

Thanks.

2 
 
find $top_dir -type d | while read d
do
 echo $d: $( ls -A $d|wc -l )
done

If you want to ignore sym-links or dirs, you can "l s -Al $d | grep -c '^-' " for " ls -A $d|wc -l ", and if you want to count sym-linked files, add L next to l in the ls.

3

Hi,

Thanks for the information. The first code (below code) which is used to find across all the directories is working.

find $top_dir -type d | while read d
do
 echo $d: $( ls -A $d|wc -l )
done

The other one to ignore sym-links or dirs is not working. The following error message has occured.

ls -Al /home/Dir1/Dir2/Dir3| grep -c '^-' " for " ls -A /home/Dir1/Dir2/Dir3| 
wc -l

grep: /home/jbandaru/jaya/naresh: invalid context length argument

It seems the issue with grep command.

Any idea please?

Thanks.

4 
find /home/dir1 -type d | while read DIR; do
  echo "${DIR##*/} has $(find $DIR/* -prune -type f | wc -l) files"
done

dir1 has        3 files
dir2 has        5 files
dir3 has        2 files
5

Hi Friends,

The following code is working.

find $top_dir -type d | while read d
do
 echo $d: $( ls -A $d|wc -l )
done

But, in our environment there is a space between the two words of a directory. Thisi snot working in the while loop.

ex:

find /stage/landing/test1*test2/LAST -type d | while read d
do
 echo $d: $( ls -A $d|wc -l )
done

I tried with /stage/landing/test1 test2/LAST , but no use.

Quick help is appreciated.

Thanks
Jayaprakash.

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6

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7

Any response please?

8

how about:

find "$top_dir" -type d | while read d
do
 echo "$d": $( ls -A "$d" |wc -l )
done
9

Hi,

The code is working if thereis no gap betwen the two words of a dir.

e.g., /home/Dir1/Dir2/Word1 Word2/ -- > this is not working.

It is treates as 2 directories.
How to avoid this?

Thanks.

10

Double quotes around, or a ? for the space, if it will be globbed later, or both. White space makes shell pragmas like "for f in *" or even "find . . . | while read f" problematic, but "find . . . | sed '...' | ksh" can deal with adding double quotes before the white space characters are changed or separate things.