Re: Possible enhancement: file count

[Ruediger Meier]

On Monday 29 February 2016, Fernando Pereira wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> First post here, so sorry if I lack knowledge on the details...
> I'm doing system admin in a company and user directories here get
> pretty big sometimes. Not only they reach 100GB easily but they are
> produce millions of small files due to their work nature.
> So, a very "simple" old task is to check the users space consumption
> and, btw, check if they don't have a hot directory with many many
> small files, which then should be archived.
>
> Anyway, I was looking for the most efficient way to do that and I
> couldn't find  satisfying answer. Of course we can use find | wc, but
> I am really looking for a simple and efficient solution just like du
> exists for the file size.
> IMHO, obtaining the file count in a given directory seems a kind of
> "disk usage", and the same way that with df one can see inodes, why
> not having a file count option to du?
>
> I would like to know if this is against the concept of du. Otherwise
> I think it would help many people out there, and I might be able to
> contribute to its implementation.

What about "du --inodes"?  coreutils >= 8.22

cu,
Rudi