countfiles

#!/bin/bash

# countfiles - a script to count the files (directory entries) within
# a directory, including those within its subdirectories.
# Copyright (C) 2014  Benjamin P. Roberts

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

FIND=/bin/find
PRINTF=/usr/bin/printf
TR=/usr/bin/tr
WC=/usr/bin/wc

for arg in "$@"
do
	count=$(${FIND} ${arg} -true -print0 | ${TR} -dc \\0 | ${WC} -c)
	${PRINTF} "%9d  %s\n" "${count}" "${arg}"
done