flc - files count Date: 25 January 2012 Version: 1.1 flc is a little utility that count files recursively in a directory. Dependencies ============ flc depends only on standards librairies that you should have. Installation ============ To compile flc, run: make Then, to install flc, run as root: make install flc will be installed in /usr/local/bin. If you want to change the installation path, set the PREFIX variable to something before runing make install. Default PREFIX: /usr/local Usage ===== Usage: flc [OPTIONS] DIR Options: -d,--directories Also count directories -D,--only-directories Count only number of directories -L,--only-symlinks Count only number of symbolic links -F,--only-regular-files Count only number of regular files -h,--help Show this menu Efficiency ========== Count number of files in a directory containing 10 copies of the 2.6.37 linux kernel source. Performance with find and wc ---------------------------- % time find . -type f | wc -l 386924 find . -type f 0,73s user 13,07s system 61% cpu 22,538 total Performance with du and wc -------------------------- % time du | wc -l 23882 du 0,72s user 13,54s system 61% cpu 23,018 total Performance with flc ------------------- % time flc . 386924 flc . 0,39s user 3,54s system 28% cpu 13,677 total Todo ==== More options available: - do not cross filesystem - do not count hard links Write a manual License ======= This program is realeased under the GNU General Public License License V3. Please, read COPYING file for more information. Contact ======= If you want to help this program, submit a PR, or write an issue.