How many files

[Matsaki]

How van I in a easy way find out how many image files a directory with many sub directories contains?

 

[artov]

If the directories do not matter, type in Terminal.app

(first "cd" to the directory containing the pictures)

find . -type f -print|wc -l

If not all files are pictures, try something like

find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -print|wc -l

If your pictures are RAW format, use .cr2 or whatever your camera uses.

 

[Matsaki]

Many thanks! Found out there is over 33.000 images :/

 

[Matsaki]

Would you happen to know how I can tar.gz a directory BUT excluding i.e. images from the tar?

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

http://www.thejackol.com/2006/09/11/excluding-specific-file-types-using-gnu-tar/

tar czvf archive.tar.gz --exclude=*.jpg --exclude=*.gif [files/directory]

 

[Matsaki]

So I can just wright:

tar czvf archive.tar.gz --exclude=images

To exclude the images folder? (want to be sure not to make any bad mistakes)

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

No, because "--exclude" only works with files, not directories... but you can do something clever like exclude all files within that directory like so:

tar czvf archive.tar.gz --exclude='images/*'

 

[Matsaki]

Thanks El.

Because I have 33.000 images in the /images directory so to save time it would be good to exclude that directory.

I will cd in to the directory that I will compress and then run your last code.