Issue
My current solution would be find <expr> -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c, but this takes far too long when there are more than 10000 results. Is there no faster/better way to do this?
Solution
Try this instead (require find's -printf support):
find <expr> -type f -printf '.' | wc -c
It will be more reliable and faster than counting the lines.
Note that I use the find's printf, not an external command.
Let's bench a bit :
$ ls -1
a
e
l
ll.sh
r
t
y
z
My snippet benchmark :
$ time find -type f -printf '.' | wc -c
8
real 0m0.004s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.007s
With full lines :
$ time find -type f | wc -l
8
real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.000s
So my solution is faster =) (the important part is the real line)
Answered By - Gilles Quenot