Re: dir command

[William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>]

Manon Metten wrote:

> Is there a bash command available that shows the contents of the given 
> dir recursively, telling me how many files are in there and the byte 
> size occupied?

For the total number of files:
$ find . -type f | wc -l

For the total number of directories:
$ find . -type d | wc -l

To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you
could do the ridiculous:
$ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -c