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Alex Gordon
Asked: 2011-02-05 15:36:02 +0800 CST

powershell or bat - counting files in all directories and subdirec

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we have a hardrive with hundreds of thousands of files

i need to figure out how many of every file extension we have

how can i do this with windowspowershell or command prompt or what ever else is available??

i need it to go through every directory. this lawyers at my company need this. it can be a total for the entire hardrive it does not have to be broken down by directory

example:

1232 JPEG
11 exe
45 bat
2342 avi
532 doc
powershell command-line-interface count active-directory

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    dir -recurse | group-object Extension -noelement

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  2. Just because I can: A quick and dirty cmd solution that's not much longer than the PowerShell one:

    (for /r %f in (*) do @(set /a EXT:%~xf+=1 >nul 2>&1))&set EXT:
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