Question

This command will count the number of files in the sub-directories.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d |while read dir;do echo "$dir";find "$dir" -type f|wc -l;done

Which looks like

./lib64
327
./bin
118

Would it be possible to have it to look like

327 ./lib64
118 ./bin

instead?

Answer 1

There are a number of ways to do this… Here’s something that doesn’t change your code very much. (I’ve put it in multiple lines for readability.)

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do
   echo `find "$dir" -type f | wc -l` "$dir"
done