Small script to recursively count files?

[ataraxia]

Is there some sort of PHP script or function that can recursively count the total size and number of files in a specified (Linux) directory and all those below it?

Need output to a text or html file containing only the total size (in megabytes) and number of the files.

Thanks

[steadyguy]

I don't think there's any builtin functions that will do all that for you, but it shouldn't be too hard to write one.

Have you taken a look at the filesystem functions at php.net?

[bobthedog]

Alternatively, if your running under Linux, you could make use of whats already in the os and shell out some commands: -

find \! -type d | wc -l

will return the number of files (recursively) from the directory it is run in. To run on a specified directory just add the path you want to start from, i.e.

find /usr/share \! -type d | wc -l

BTW, this will list all files (including hidden files) but not including "." and ".."

So - thats the file count, and space usage can be done in much the same way

du -s

will give you a file usage summary for all the files from the current directory downwards (including hidden files, but excluding "." and "..") in Kb.

For bytes use

du -sb

or a "human readable format" with

du -sh

Anyhow - just an alternative to PHP 🙂