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Re: listing sub-drectories with most files in

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From: Thor Andreassen <ta@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: listing sub-drectories with most files in
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:02:08 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:24:14PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm grepping a tree (grep string **/*) and want to list the subdirectories 
> which have the most files. This is because the grep is taking ages and I'm   
> hoping I can exclude some of these.
> 
> I guess an easy job for zsh?

Alternative way:

find *(/) | cut -d/ -f1 | uniq -c | sort -n

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best regards
Thor Andreassen

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