[Novalug] Re: [Ma-linux] How to get the number of files in a given directory

[Clif Flynt]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:27:55AM -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
> This was really an initial exercise to determine how many files were in my
> virusmail/spammail folder, put there by amavis/spamassassin.
> 
> The number of files was huge (2512 to be exact), since 11-16-07.
> 
> Since I didn't know a command to do this, I logged into the box via Winscp3,
> and moved over to the spammail directory, and winscp3 gave me a count of 2512.
> 
> Not the best way to determine this, but it worked.

  I find that a lot of the "normal" tools fail when I need to work with
directories that have huge numbers of files in them.

  My usual solution then is to start an interactive Tcl shell and do
stuff like:

# Count all files
llength [glob -type file -types f * .*]

# Count all directories
llength [glob -type file -types d * .*]

# Get the stats for the files
foreach name [glob -type file -types f * .*]  {
  puts $name 
  file stat $name temp
  parray temp
}

# Get a list of the attributes for the files
foreach name [glob -type file -types f * .*]  {
  puts $name 
  puts [file attributes $name]
}

  There is more, of course, but these little snippets usually
get me what I need.  I suspect you can do similar stuff from a perl
shell,

Clif

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