Shell script to find all types of files in a directory with their count
find . -type f -name '*.*' -exec sh -c 'echo ${0##*.}' {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
The echo ${0##*.} gives you the extension of the file. We pipe the output to sort and then count the unique lines with uniq.
Some additions:
- Since the output of
uniqis not sorted according to the number of occurrences, you'll have to pipe again into a numeric sort (-nr) if you want it sorted. - If you want to search your current directory only, add
-maxdepth 1to yourfindcommand. - Pipe into
awk '{print $2, $1}'to show the count after the extensions.