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Revision: 22669
at January 11, 2011 10:57 by tm


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# Most any solutions use a .... | wc -l, which is wrong. It breaks (at least) if
# files contain newlines. Thus the right way to do it is:

find [find expression] -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c
(or, more efficiently)
find [find expression] -exec printf %.s. {} + | wc -c

# e.g. to find all jpg-files which are larger than 1kB, you can use:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg -size +1024c -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c

# the "weird" -size argument is POSIX compliant. On a GNU system you could use
# "-size +1k"

Revision: 22668
at January 18, 2010 23:24 by tm


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# Most any solutions use a .... | wc -l, which is wrong. It breaks (at least) if
# files contain newlines. Thus the right way to do it is:

find [find expression] -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c

# e.g. to find all jpg-files which are larger than 1kB, you can use:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg -size +1024c -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c

# the "weird" -size argument is POSIX compliant. On a GNU system you could use
# "-size +1k"

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Count results of find

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Bash, find

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Bash