Directories with maximum number of files
Lot of times, I want to find the directories with maximum number of files and so I wrote this quick function to do exactly the same
function count_lines () { oldIFS=$IFS count=0 IFS=$'\n' dir=${1:-.} cd $dir find . -type d |while read line do echo -n "$(find $line -type f |wc -l) $line" echo printf "Directories :: %8d\r" $count >&2 ((count++)) done|sort -n IFS=$oldIFS } # ---------- end of function count_lines ----------