Report total number of files in each subdirectory.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

We have a “/psoft” mount point having more than 100,000 files in several recursive subdirectories, mostly log files.

I would like to get a report of total number of files in each subdirectory.

For example:

/psoft/dir1 400
/psoft/dir1/subdir1/ 500
/psoft/dir2 600

Thanks,


Gulam.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Gulam:

Here's a simple approach for what I think you want:

find /mountpoint -xdev -type d > /tmp/mydirs
while read DIR
do
find ${DIR} -xdev -type f -print|wc -l
done < /tmp/mydirs

Regards!

...JRF...

[Christian Tremblay]

try:

for i in `find /psoft -type d`;do echo $i;ll $i|wc -l;done

Chris

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

if your example output is written correctly, you do NOT want to have the counting of files done recursivly, because then this numbers where impossible:

/psoft/dir1 400
/psoft/dir1/subdir1/ 500 (larger than the number of the parent directory)

So try:
find /psoft -type d -print | xargs -i /bin/sh 'printf {}: ;ls -p {} | grep -cv "/$"'

mfG Peter