Question

Hi all I am trying to write a script which recursively searches directories from a parent directory and counts how many text files (.txt) are in the sub directories. I also need to output the files relative path to the parent directory.

Lets say I have a folder named Files

Within this folder there may be:

Files/childFolder1/child1.txt
Files/childFolder1/child2.txt
Files/childFolder1/child3.txt
Files/childFolder2/child4.txt
Files/childFolder2/child5.txt
Files/child6.txt

So the output would be

The files are:

/childFolder1/child1.txt
/childFolder1/child2.txt
/childFolder1/child3.txt
/childFolder2/child4.txt
/childFolder2/child5.txt
/child6.txt

There are 6 files in the 'Files' folder

So far I have a script which is this:

#! /bin/csh

find $argv[1] -iname '*.txt'

set wc=`find $argv[1] -iname '*.txt' | wc -l`

echo "Number of files under" $argv[1] "is" $wc

I have no idea how to make the output so it only shows the file path relative to the directory. Currently my output is something like this:

/home/Alice/Documents/Files/childFolder1/child1.txt
/home/Alice/Documents/Files/childFolder1/child2.txt
/home/Alice/Documents/Files/childFolder1/child3.txt
/home/Alice/Documents/Files/childFolder2/child4.txt
/home/Alice/Documents/Files/childFolder2/child5.txt
/home/Alice/Documents/Files/child6.txt
Number of files under /home/Alice/Documents/Files is 6

Which is not desired. I am also worried about how I am setting the $wc variable. If the directory listing is large then this is going to acquire a massive overhead.

Answer 1

Try

find $argv[1] -iname '*.txt' -printf "%P \n"

This should give the desired output 🙂

Hayden