Shell Script To Count Number Of Files In Each Subdirectories

by admin on July 24, 2009 · 0 comments

#!/bin/bash
# Write a script that will count the number of files in each of your subdirectories.
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# Copyright (c) 2001 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
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# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
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START=$HOME
 
# change your directory to command line if passed
# otherwise use home directory
[ $# -eq 1 ] && START=$1 || :
 
if [ ! -d $START ]
then
	echo "$START not a directory!"
	exit 1
fi
 
# use find command to get all subdirs name in DIRS variable
DIRS=$(find "$START" -type d)
 
# loop thought each dir to get the number of files in each of subdir
for d in $DIRS
do
   [ "$d" != "." -a "$d" != ".." ] &&  echo "$d dirctory has $(ls -l $d | wc -l) files" || :
done

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