Simple Shell One-Liner To Enumerate File Types In Linux and Unix | Linux Today

Simple Shell One-Liner To Enumerate File Types In Linux and Unix

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 30, 2008

[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach
for this link. ]

“Lately, we’ve been focusing a lot on Perl ‘one liners,’ from
mass file time syncing to name and IP resolution and I thought it
was only fair that we should write a post about a shell ‘one liner’
for once. After all, most standard Unix and Linux shells are
perfect for that purpose 🙂

“Here’s a very quick way to take an inventory of all the
different file types (including directories, sockets, named pipes,
etc) that exist in a given directory tree and provide a tally of
each file type…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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