How do I recursively count files in a list of Linux directories?
Example:
/dog/
/a.txt
/b.txt
/c.ipynb
/cat/
/d.txt
/e.pdf
/f.png
/g.txt
/owl/
/h.txt
I want following output:
5 .txt
1 .pynb
1 .pdf
1 .png
I tried the following, with no luck.
find . -type f | sed -n 's/..*\.//p' | sort | uniq -c
This find + gawk
may work for you:
find . -type f -print0 |
awk -v RS='\0' -F/ '{sub(/^.*\./, ".", $NF); ++freq[$NF]} END {for (i in freq) print freq[i], i}'
It is safe to use -print0
in find
to handle files with whitespace and other special glob characters. Likewise we use -v RS='\0'
in awk
to ensure NUL
byte is record seperator.