topic Re: Files Count in Operating System - HP-UX

Files Count

Cliff Lim Kok Hwee — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:20:52 GMT

Gd Day Forum,

I will be performing a filesystem copy to another filesystem using the cp -Rhp option.

I need to verify that the resultant filesystem does not miss out any files.

I run the command ls -al |grep ^d |wc -l for directory count
I run the command ls -al |grep ^- |wc -l for file count
I will run the command ls to grep for
b Block special file
c Character special file
d Directory
l Symbolic link
n Network special file
p Fifo (also called a "named pipe") special file
s Socket
- Ordinary file

Just wondering is there any other better way to perform the file count from the top directory level rather then cd to each directory and perform the ls command mentioned above?

thanks n regards/cliff

Re: Files Count

Franky_1 — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:25:57 GMT

Hi,

what about "ls -lR|wc -l" in the top level directory ?
Will give you a summary all over

Simple, but effective :-)

Regards

Franky

Re: Files Count

Eric Antunes — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:28:22 GMT

Hi Cliff,

cp command warns you for each file it misses! Do it like this:

cp -Rhp ... |more

Re: Files Count

Pete Randall — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:30:32 GMT

You could try running "find /dirname |wc -l" in each of the directories. That will count everything - directories, files, etc - and the totals should match.

Pete

Re: Files Count

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:44:29 GMT

We can simulate ls operation with find command,

find -name "*"

"*" -- will give all files,

So try as,

OLDFSDIR> cd ; find . -name "*" > /tmp/oldfs.log

NEWFSDIR> cd ; find . -name "*" > /tmp/newfs.log

Check the difference with diff command as,

diff /tmp/oldfs.log /tmp/newfs.log

It will it easily.

More you can use -type on find command too as,

find . -type f -name "*"

f is regular file,

see more on find command for -type option. as
f regular file
b Block special file
c Character special file
d Directory
l Symbolic link
n Network special file
p Fifo (also called a "named pipe") special file
s Socket

HTH.
- Muthu

Re: Files Count

hein coulier — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:49:17 GMT

find . -exec ll -d {} \; |cut -c1|sort|uniq -c

Re: Files Count

Tom Danzig — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:25:45 GMT

I would do ls -lR at the top level directory as suggested and output to a temp file. This command could take quite a while depending on the file system and if you need to do multiple pattern mathes (i.e. for files, dirs, etc), you can do it on the temp file which would be much faster and less system intensive.

Re: Files Count

Franky_1 — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:27:25 GMT

Hi,

if someone could help you, please don't forget to assign points

Regards

Franky

Re: Files Count

RAC_1 — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:37:55 GMT

While with options of ls you may get the count for no. of files, dirs, links, socket file etc., how about using dd for copying the file system.

This would ensure that everything is copied to the destination and perms will be same as that of the source. Also you have option of using a larger block size and copy it fast.

dd if=/dev/vgxx/lvolx of=/dev/vgyy/lvoly bs=1024k

Anil

Re: Files Count

Jose Mosquera — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:04:57 GMT

Hi,

Pls try checking the cp's command return code, i.e:

cp -Rp ...
STATUS=$?
if [ "$STATUS" = "0" ]
then
echo "Command concluded successfully"
else
echo "Command concluded with errors"
fi

Rgds.

Re: Files Count

Cliff Lim Kok Hwee — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:47:52 GMT

Thanks for all the responses guys...

I think ls -lR |wc -l works well.

cheers/cliff