From 082d1ce6c2d109912119a581086f36c9eaa368b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 17:37:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] nicer file for doing file counts.  way better output,
 simpler, also exhibits how to change cmd line args to bash

---
 scripts/files/count_files.sh            | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/files/count_files_in_subdirs.sh |  9 --------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 scripts/files/count_files.sh
 delete mode 100644 scripts/files/count_files_in_subdirs.sh

diff --git a/scripts/files/count_files.sh b/scripts/files/count_files.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b869b05c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/files/count_files.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+# make sure they gave us some arguments.
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+#hmmm: could use the count notation instead of sloppy empty check.
+  # reset first arg to be '*' to do any directories here.
+#echo changing args to use all subdirs in current dir.
+  set -- $(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d) "${@:2}"
+#echo "arg 1 is now '$1'"
+fi
+
+# run through all the parameters provided and find any
+# directories under them (or probably barf if they're not
+# dirs).
+for i in "${@}" ; do
+  # print the count of files followed by directory name,
+  # with leading zeros to allow sorting, which get
+  # redigested as spaces before showing the list.
+  printf "%06d -- %s\n" $(find "$i" -type f | wc -l) "$i"
+done |
+# provide sorted output based on how many files exist
+# in each directory.
+  sort -r |
+# eat the zeroes but keep the tabular look.  this simple
+# sed code will eat zeroes in names also.  oops.
+  sed -e 's/0/ /g'
+
diff --git a/scripts/files/count_files_in_subdirs.sh b/scripts/files/count_files_in_subdirs.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 7814ca01..00000000
--- a/scripts/files/count_files_in_subdirs.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-dirs=($*)
-if [ -z "$dirs" ]; then dirs=($(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ) ); fi
-#echo dirs are ${dirs[*]}
-for i in "${dirs[@]}"; do
-  echo -n $(ls -1 $i | wc -l)
-  echo -e "\t\t$i"
-done
-
-- 
2.34.1