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Count number of sub directories in directories

I am looking for an easy way to get a count of sub directories within an output of directories. Basically I am trying to get a count of users per customer. They each have a directory:

/home/customer/

then under that they have users

/home/customer/users/

I am trying to get an easy command that will output the customer name (/home/customer/) with the number of user directories under that.

I am just using "ls -l /home/*" which prints out the user directories which I then have to manually count. I am sure there is a much easier way.

Thanks in advance!

sardiskan

Try:

find ./ -type d|wc

where ./ is the subdirectory you want to count. The first or second number should be the folder count.

GCaron

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That looks to work if I'm in the customers directory but I have 150+ customers and don't want to have to go to each one and issue the command.

I have

/home/customer1/user1
/home/customer1/user2
/home/customer2/user1
/home/customer2/user2
/home/customer2/user3
etc...

I would like to issue one command to list out the number of users in each customer directory.

sardiskan

Oh, and it also counts the "hidden" folders and the . and .. things

omarfarid

try

cd /home
for dir in *
do
cd $dir
echo "number of users under $dir is `ls | wc`"
cd ..
done

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GCaron

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Thanks!