file count

[DHL International Italy]

Is there a way to count all the files on a server (HP-UX 10.20) other than using find?

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

how about
du / -a | wc -l

[Stefan Farrelly]

ls -R | wc -l

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

to avoid for du walking thru NFS use:

du -t hfs -t vxfs -a / | wc -l

Regards

[CHRIS ANORUO]

Use ls -aR /|wc -l

[John Palmer]

What is it that you are actually trying to achieve?

The previous replies are good if you just want to find how many files and directories exist.

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

The quickest way is probably :-

bdf -i

Then just look at the iused column. Each file and directory requires 1 inode.

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

Andy's solution is indeed the best and the quickest.

To calculate the total number of files on all mounted file systems:

-------------------
total_files=0
set $(bdf -i)
shift 10
while [ $# -gt 1 ]
do
let total_files=$total_files+$6
shift 9
done
print $total_files
----------------------


Hope this helps,
Rik.

[P V Patel]

Hi,
TO count total number of files on all mounted local file systems run following script:

total_files=0
for number in `bdf -il | grep -v Filesystem | awk '{print $6}'`
do
total_files=`expr $total_files + $number`
done
echo $total_files
Regards.
Punjabhai V Patel

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

Just the for the fun of it you could also do

find / | wc -l

reember though in most of the methods you will be counting . and ..
But in find you could do somthing like
find . | grep -v ". " | grep -v ".. " | wc -l

and if you didnt want nfs dir's you can add this as an option to find