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I just want to count all the files in a directory. I used two method what I found:

  1. tree /home/bkp Whit this method the output is 2177879 file.

  2. find /home/bkp -type f | wc -l And with that one is 2176704 file

What makes the difference? How I could count the all fille under all directories and subdirectories?

Thank you!

Márton Stark
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  • It is a good question here. However it sounds like one or the other has a bug. Try doing tree -d and find with -type d for directories, and you get 2 completely different results as well. The question would be though, which one has the bug? – Terrance Sep 15 '21 at 22:17
  • Related: How to count all folders and subfolders... –  Sep 16 '21 at 00:40
  • Hi, I tried both, and different is still exist. with tree -d 306647 and with find 306760. I think I don't start to count manually :-D :) – Márton Stark Sep 16 '21 at 06:32
  • Try ls -alR | grep -c '^-' to count files and compare the result with tree and find (if you didn't add files to the directory since). tree -ad (also count hidden directories) is equal to find -type d that could explain the difference between the two. However, I don't understand why tree /home/bkp output is greater than find. Is this an automatic backup folder or do you think file count may have change between the two commands? – Gounou Sep 16 '21 at 12:44
  • Even tree -ad and find . -type d both come up with different totals. The find command will usually come up with a lower count though. – Terrance Sep 16 '21 at 13:13

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tree
# Also output directories but not hidden files
.
├── Directory1
├── Directory2
├── File1
└── File2

tree -a
# Also output hidden files and hidden directories
.
├── Directory1
├── Directory2
├── File1
├── File2
├── .Hidden_Directory1
├── .Hidden_Directory2
├── .Hidden_File1
└── .Hidden_File2

find -type f
# Files and hidden files
./File1
./File2
./.Hidden_File1
./.Hidden_File2

tree -aifF | grep -v '/$'
# Output files and hidden files
.
./File1
./File2
./.Hidden_File1
./.Hidden_File2

Source : How to make tree output only files?

The -i and -f arguments cause tree to output full paths on each line, rather than indenting. The -F argument causes it to append an / to directory names, which are filtered out by the inverted grep (grep -v '/$').

man tree
-f     Prints the full path prefix for each file.
-i     Makes tree not print the indentation lines, useful when 
       used in conjunction with the -f option. Also removes as much 
       whitespace as possible when used with the -J or -x options.
Gounou
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