Hello everybody!! I hope anyone can help me with this problem: I need to elaborate a script that evaluate de content on the actual directory and print an executive resume on what is inside about files, directories, links and special objects, like: /user/home/director: 10 files, 8 directories, 5 links, 0 special objects. If there are included arguments these has to correspond to a system directories. In this case the script should evaluate each one of those directories and show a resume of each one of them

Here is a tree script that was sent to me a while back. I modified it to use Korn shell and took out all the `expr` stuff and typeset some integer variables so the script would run a little faster. #!/bin/ksh ################### function search { # ################### for dir in * do if [ -d $dir ] ; then # ==> If it is a directory (-d)... dirLevel=0 # ==> Temp variable, keeping track of directory level. while [ $dirLevel != $depth ] # Keep track of inner nested loop. do print -n "| " # ==> Display vertical connector symbol, # ==> with 2 spaces & no line feed in order to indent. (( dirLevel += 1 )) # ==> Increment dirLevel. done if [ -L $dir ] ; then # ==> If directory is a symbolic link... print "+---$dir" `ls -l $dir | sed 's/^.*'$dir' //'` # ==> Display horiz. connector and list directory name, but... # ==> delete date/time part of long listing. else print "+---$dir" # ==> Display horizontal connector symbol... # ==> and print directory name. if cd $dir ; then # ==> If can move to subdirectory... (( depth += 1 )) # ==> Increment depth. search # with recursivity ;-) # ==> Function calls itself. (( numDirectories += 1 )) # ==> Increment directory count. fi fi fi done cd .. # ==> Up one directory level. if [ $depth ] ; then # ==> If depth = 0 (returns TRUE)... dirFinished=1 # ==> set flag showing that search is done. fi (( depth -= 1 )) # ==> Decrement depth. } # end of the search function # - Main - if [ $# = 0 ] ; then cd `pwd` # ==> No args to script, then use current working directory. else cd $1 # ==> Otherwise, move to indicated directory. fi print "Initial directory = `pwd`" dirFinished=0 # ==> Search finished flag. typeset -i depth=0 # ==> Depth of listing. typeset -i numDirectories=0 typeset -i dirLevel=0 while [ $dirFinished != 1 ] # While flag not set... do search # ==> Call function after initializing variables. done print "Total directories = $numDirectories" This is not my script, although I could write it myself. The copy I got doesn't have the author's name on it, but he was a pretty good script writer. This is a nice shell. You can add some additional counters, remove the tree stuff, test for a link test -L and a file test -f and you should be able to get a decent report. Jerry