Shell file count

Count files and directories using shell script Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 1 month ago. Active 3 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 69k times. Rubens Alan Smith Alan Smith 3 3 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Your whole script is broken if there happens to be spaces in file names. As you're learming, my first advice is: Use More Quotes! Another comment: I can tell that your sources for learning bash are outdated and don't show good practices. On Filename Expansion consider reading: bash.

Hi, I don't understand this, where are there spaces in file names? You could have a space in a filename. Try this: touch "hello Kitty" , you'll have a file with a space in its name. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. This is obviously the best possible method in this particular case! As dogbane mentioned, it handles all possible cases of files having funny symbols in their name, and also works well with directories that contain a lot of files which is not the case for the bash solutions using globbing.

One thing, though, my find complains about -maxdepth 1 being given after the -type f option. Another thing, the double quotes are not necessary here, but it never hurts to use them. Add a comment. However if you want to learn, the bash script may be a better way. Anders Johansson Anders Johansson 3, 17 17 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

Search Forums. Show Threads. Show Posts. Shell Programming and Scripting. Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting command to count files in dir. Registered User. Join Date: Sep Join Date: Apr Join Date: Nov Can you use this command to count all of the files over a certain size?

Code :. Join Date: Jul Assign read write permission to the user for specific dir and it's sub dir and files in AIX. I have searched this quite a long time but couldn't find the right method for me to use.

I need to assign read write permission to the user for specific directories and it's sub directories and files. I do not want to use ACL. I do not want to assign user the same group of that directories too Dear Members, I have a list of xml files like abc. Over time we can make many files and folders on our system and different applications can produce even more so it is very important to have an overview of the folders and the files numbers, sizes, and handling so we can avoid that our system has been overloaded.

In addition, to connect remotely to servers and get the folder size on the remote servers we will use Invoke-Command PowerShell CmdLet which I will explain shortly.

In this article, we will see many different PowerShell examples that will give us information about the folder size on our system both locally and on remote servers.

Sum value is in bytes and it is the same if we look at folder properties using Windows Explorer as you can see on the screenshot below. Measure-Object PowerShell CmdLet will do the math for us and calculate the size of folder and how many items folders and files are in it using the following parameters:.

First , we need to enable remoting on all computers that we want to connect remotely since we will use Invoke-Command PowerShell CmdLet. Enabling remoting is out of the scope of this article but I will mention some tricks I have implemented on my stand-alone installation. We can see the example but I hope that the below explanation is useful especially for new PowerShell scripters.

So let me explain to you all the CmdLets and parameters used and why. To remotely connect to servers we will use Invoke-Command CmdLet with the following parameters:.

Credentials are very important in making the connection to the remote computer. Now, whenever we need a user name and password for a credential we have our password encrypted and saved externally. That means everything that I show is on the same computer. For that reason, I have used this approach of keeping my credentials. You have to find out which solution is right for your environment. Get-ChildItem CmdLet is used to list all the folders, files, and subfolders of the specified folder in the Path parameter and the following parameters used:.

Measure-Object CmdLet is used to calculate Folder size and count the number of items files and folders in the specified folder using the following parameters:. Select-Object CmdLet is used to present the result and convert bytes into megabytes for the folder size. REMEMBER: I have used a stand-alone enabled remoting environment remoting on the single computer and if I do not provide the correct credentials remoting will return the error like on the screenshot below.

Configuring PowerShell Remoting can be sometimes very tricky so be patient. Here is the result of the folder size in kilobytes. Notice that the result has many decimal places so in the next example, we will format the result to get with just two decimal places. Let me just quickly go through each of CmdLets and parameters used with it and why we have used them. Select-Object CmdLet is used to present the result and convert bytes into kilobytes for the folder size. In this example, we will just format our result to return with two decimal places only.

Here is the result of the folder size in megabytes. Here is the result of the folder size in gigabytes. If for whatever reason we want to have folder size in kilobytes , megabytes , and gigabytes well-formatted using PowerShell here is the example code:.

Thanks to the readers question I am adding this section to the article. You already know that the same result can be seen using Windows Explorer Properties like in the screenshot below. Get-ChildItem CmdLet is used to list all the files within folders and subfolders. Here is the explanation of each parameter used:. Result is pipelined to Measure-Object CmdLet. Its only purpose is to count the files for us. Finally we make the property name of the result to be readable using Select-Object CmdLet and expression feature.