counting files, directories and subdirectories in a given path - bash

Question

I am trying to figure how to run a simple script "count.sh" that is called together with a path, e.g.:
count.sh /home/users/documents/myScripts
The script will need to iterate over the directories in this path and print how many files and folders (including hidden) in each level of this path.
For example:
7
8
9
10
(myScripts - 7, documents - 8, users -9, home - 10)
And by the way, can I run this script using count.sh pwd?

Answer 1

More or less something like that:
#!/bin/sh
P="$1"
while [ "/" != "$P" ]; do
echo "$P `find \"$P\" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l`"
P=`dirname "$P"`;
done
echo "$P `find \"$P\" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l`"
You can use it from the current directory with script.sh `pwd`

Answer 2

Another approach is to handle separation or tokenizing the path using an array and controlling word-splitting with the internal field separator (IFS). You can include the root directory if desired (you would need to trim the additional leading '/' in the printout in that case)
#!/bin/bash
[ -z "$1" -o ! -d "$1" ] && {
printf "error: directory argument required.\n"
exit 1
}
p="$1" ## remove two lines to include /
[ "${p:0:1}" = "/" ] && p="${p:1}"
oifs="$IFS" ## save internal field separator value
IFS=$'/' ## set to break on '/'
array=( $p ) ## tokenize given path into array
IFS="$oifs" ## restore original IFS
## print out path level info using wc
for ((i=0; i<${#array[#]}; i++)); do
dirnm="${dirnm}/${array[i]}"
printf "%d. %s -- %d\n" "$((i+1))" "$dirnm" $(($(ls -Al "$dirnm" | wc -l)-1))
done
Example Output
$ bash filedircount.sh /home/david/tmp
1. /home -- 5
2. /home/david -- 132
3. /home/david/tmp -- 113
As an alternative, you could use a for loop to loop through and count the items in the directory at each level instead of using wc if desired.

Answer 3

You could try the following
#!/bin/bash
DIR=$(cd "$1" ; pwd)
PREFIX=
until [ "$DIR" = / ] ; do
echo -n "$PREFIX"$(basename "$DIR")" "$(ls -Ab "$DIR" | wc -l)
DIR=$(dirname "$DIR")
PREFIX=", "
done
echo
(ls -Ab lists all files and folders except . and .. and escapes special characters so that only one line is printed per file even if filenames include newline characters. wc -l counts lines.)
You can invoke the script using
count.sh `pwd`