Count of files in a directory in unix

In the follow in g example there are five CSV files. The requirement is to f in d out the sum of records in all five files. This can be achieved by pip in g the output of the cat command to wc. That is, without a newl in e at the end, you don't have a …. Posted: 1 day ago Sample List all files with in a dir ectory in clud in g sub- dir ectories.

The macro conta in ed on the Full Code tab lists all of the files that conta in a particular extension with in a dir ectory and all sub- dir ectories. This macro can be modified to do more than just list the files. Posted: 1 week ago Now you can f in d number of files count in a specified folder and folders on the screen.

Related Articles. You can also learn complete details like syntax, example and etc by click in g on the follow in g buttons. In the example above it would be 4. Posted: 1 week ago f in d. How to f in d number of files par day?

So, the result should be someth in g like: left number is number of files and right is one day. Posted: 3 days ago Rob, I also recently needed a file count.

Armstrong, Jr. This command acts recursively, and so will count all the files in the nested dir ectories. Worked great for count in g the total number of files in my web site. If no. The command above will give you a sum of all files , in clud in g dir ectories and syml in ks. Posted: 2 days ago Take the path of a dir ectory, either you can manually put your dir ectory path or you can take as an in put from the user: path name variablle.

Posted: 1 week ago Yes you can read. Linux Commands. SunOS Commands. FreeBSD Commands. Full Man Repository. Advanced Search. Contact Us. Forum Rules. Mark Forums Read. Thread Tools. View Public Profile for Raynon. Find all posts by Raynon. View Public Profile for vgersh Find all posts by vgersh View Public Profile for lorcan. Find all posts by lorcan. View Public Profile for matrixmadhan. That's a lovely tool that runs nice and quickly giving useful stats at the end.

Love it. To me, having this kind of access so extremely useful, it's a necessity. A unix command line is magical. I especially like perl and regular expressions. Note their numbers are close but not exactly the same for k Java Android project. Would you consider editing the beginning of this question to make it clear that cloc is cross-platform since it's just a Perl script? Just perfect, works fine in Windows bash as well of course. Show 3 more comments. On Unix-like systems, there is a tool called cloc which provides code statistics.

I ran in on a random directory in our code base it says: 59 text files. Calmarius Calmarius 17k 16 16 gold badges 98 98 silver badges bronze badges. I like it. But what means that name?

It's on Windows now too! Assuming you've got chocolatey : choco install cloc — icc You didn't specify how many files are there or what is the desired output. This may be what you are looking for: find. This will work, as long as there are not too many files : if there are a lot of files, you will get several lines as a result xargs will split the files list in several sub-lists — Pascal MARTIN.

That's why I said He didn't specify how many files are there. My version is easier to remember, but Shin's version is better if You have more than a few files. I'm voting it up. Here we go: find. To find by file extension, use -name : find. Functionally, this works perfectly, but on large listing linux source it is really slow because it's starting a wc process for each file instead of 1 wc process for all the files.

I timed it at 31 seconds using this method compared to 1. That said, this faster method at least on OS X , ends up printing "total" several times so some additional filtering is required to get a proper total I posted details in my answer. This has the benefit of working for an unlimited number of files. Well done! DougRichardson, you could consider this instead: find. If all you're interested in is the total, then you could go a bit further and use tail : find.

So [h c cpp php cc] ends up being the same as [hcp ]. This works under Cygwin. For windows, LocMetrics do the job — Camille. A repeat of the accepted answer though posted at the same time. Lines in each file: find.

Paul Draper Paul Draper Joel Ellis Joel Ellis 1, 8 8 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. No, Nathan. The xargs answers won't necessarily print the count as a single number. It may just print a bunch of subtotals. What about newlines? If your file names contain new lines, I'd say you have bigger problems. Also the -print is redundant, since it's implied in the absence of other actions. Show 1 more comment. Here you go: find. I did find.

The -- is to mark the end of options it's a bit unnecessary here. If I do 'find. None of the answers so far gets at the problem of filenames with spaces. To print hidden files, change it to -1a : Pipes output into To count the number of files outside the directory , you can specify the directory name as shown. Let us confirm the existence of the files by listing them using the ls command.

Similarly, you can exit the directory using cd command.