Re: listing sub-drectories with most files in

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 3,  9:23pm, Thor Andreassen wrote:
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} Adding -maxdepth 1 and -type f to find should limit the result
} correctly:
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} find *(/) -maxdepth 1 -type f | cut -d/ -f1 | uniq -c | sort -n

Unfortunately that's still not quite right.  Because you've lost the
path leading up to the subdirectory name, if two subtrees each contain
a directory with an identical name, you'll either get two counts with
no way to distinguish them, or a single count that is the sum of the
number of files in both of those subdirectories.

Also because find prints in directory scan order, you have to be careful
or you'll get a few files and then a subdirectory and then a few more
files and you'll still end up with multiple counts for the same directory.

You can do it this way:

find *(/) -type f -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

but that seems like an awful lot of work.