Comments on: Find the directories containing the most files

By: jason

jason — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:18:43 +0000

Oh, and the one you supplied only goes down one level, I think–it doesn’t recurse.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:17:25 +0000

I know what you mean–I didn’t want to have Perl in there, either. I initially tried to hook something up using only find, xargs, and wc, but couldn’t get the pipes to work out how I wanted them.

I tried something like this:
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} find {} -print | wc -l

…but I needed the second pipe to apply to the second find, not to xargs. I couldn’t seem to hook that up.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:10:28 +0000

Would something along these lines this do what you wanted?

for d in */; do set — “$d”*; printf “%s: %d\n” “${d%/}” “$#”; done

I don’t like needing perl in there…