{"id":2286,"date":"2017-12-08T06:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2021-02-27T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T09:22:30","slug":"find-a-number-of-file-in-directories-recursively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/find-a-number-of-file-in-directories-recursively\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Number of File in Directories Recursively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>scmuser created the topic: find a number of file in directories recursively<\/strong><br \/>\nI have several directories and files underneath&#8230;how to find only files from all directories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>any command<\/p>\n<p><strong>rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: find a number of file in directories recursively<\/strong><br \/>\nTry following command<br \/>\nfind .\/ -type f | wc -l<\/p>\n<p>For finding only files from all directories recursively<br \/>\nfind .\/ &#8211; type d | wc -l<\/p>\n<p>For finding only directory om all directories recursively<br \/>\nRegards,<br \/>\nRajesh Kumar<br \/>\nTwitt me @ <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RajeshKumarIn\">twitter.com\/RajeshKumarIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>opendesk replied the topic: Re: find a number of file in directories recursively<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom DOS Command prompt, you can do:<\/p>\n<p>dir \/A-d \/b \/s<\/p>\n<p>or in java, you need to do recursion. Here is a java code snippet.<\/p>\n<p>public void visitAllFiles(File dir) {<br \/>\nif (dir.isDirectory()) {<br \/>\nString[] children = dir.list();<\/p>\n<p>for (int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {\nvisitAllFiles(new File(dir, children));\n}\n} else {\nprocessFiles(dir);\n}\n}\n\nAll the best :)\n\n\n<strong>rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: find a number of file in directories recursively<\/strong><br \/>\nGood Input.. 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