find files by number or count

Victorious Vole answered on July 24, 2023 Popularity 3/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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You could try this, to get the sub directory names and the number of files/directories they contain:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c "echo -ne '{} '; ls '{}' | wc -l" \;

If you want to do the same for all sub directories (recursive find) use this instead:

find . -type d -exec bash -c "echo -ne '{} '; ls '{}' | wc -l" \;

To select those directories that have exactly 10 files:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c "echo -ne '{} '; ls '{}' | wc -l" \; | 
  awk '$NF==10'

10 or more:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c "echo -ne '{} '; ls '{}' | wc -l" \; | 
 awk '$NF>=10'

10 or less:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c "echo -ne '{} '; ls '{}' | wc -l" \; | 
 awk '$NF<=10'

If you want to keep only the directory name (for example of you want to pipe it to another process downstream as @evilsoup suggested) you can use this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c "echo -ne '{}\t'; ls '{}' | wc -l" \; | 
 awk -F"\t" '$NF<=10{print $1}'

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