Is this easily achievable with MS-DOS scripts, or would I have to resort to C++, Python, Perl, or other ways to achieve this?
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Is this easily achievable with MS-DOS scripts, or would I have to resort to C++, Python, Perl, or other ways to achieve this?
To be easiest, it has to pass the “my grandmother can do it” benchmark.
After thorough benchmarking, I determined that the easiest approach would be to open each folder in windows explorer, look at the file count in the status bar, and use a calculator to add the counts.
It is slow, but effective.
EDIT
It might not be as easy, but as a heavy cygwin user, I tend to use the find command and wc.