Count the number of files in a directory and all sub directories in Bash (Unix or Linux)
Counting the numher of files in a directory is easy:
ls | wc -l
Taking the sub directories requires a little more, so I made a script:
#!/bin/sh
ls -a $@ | while read dir
do
find "$dir" | wc -l | tr "\n" "\t"
echo "$dir"
done
Put in to a file, say numfile, make it executeable: chmod +x numfile and run it in the directory you waht to look at. You can also just give the name of the directory as a parameter.
Now, lets say you only want the 15 directories with the most files in them, easy:
./numfiles | sort -n | tail -n 15