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denormalizer
Asked: 2010-09-22 21:06:52 +0800 CST

Get all extensions and their respective file count in a directory

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Getting all extensions for a directory: easy. Getting file counts for a particular extension: easy.

But getting all file extensions and their respective file counts is alluding me.

eg.

+ dir
 + abc.txt
 + def.txt
 + abc.pdf
 * def.pov

should return something like:

.txt 2
.pdf 1
.pov 1

The aim of this exercise is that I want to find out which file extension is popular in a certain directory.

Thanks in advance

linux extension find

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    /var/cache$ sudo find ./ -type f | grep -E ".*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*$" | sed -e 's/.*\(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*\)$/\1/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 .6
      1 .cache
      1 .noconf
      1 .php
      1 .sl
      2 .bin
      2 .el
      2 .tdb
      4 .baseA
      4 .baseB
      4 .dat
      4 .DB
     27 .db
    221 .deb

    Here is the explication:

    find ./ -type f

    find only file, not directory

    grep -E ".*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*$"

    filter file with extension

    sed -e 's/.*\(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*\)$/\1/'

    delete path and file name, save only extension

    sort | uniq -c | sort -n

    sort, uniq and sort

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  2. Since you're using Linux (gnu grep), this is a good time to use Perl REs (PCRE) -P and grep's -o option. Taking @bindbn's answer as a great candidate:

    find . -type f | grep -Po '\.([\w\d])*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
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