Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Linux : Find the top 10 directories containing largest number of files/directories in sorted order


Command Combination:

find -xdev -type d -print0 | while IFS= read -d '' dir; do echo "$(find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -print0 | grep -zc .) $dir" ;done | sort -rn | head -10

Example:

find /opt -xdev -type d -print0 | while IFS= read -d '' dir; do echo "$(find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -print0 | grep -zc .) $dir" ;done | sort -rn | head -10

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