Display folders with less than 3 files

[fnheiden]

I know, that this question is a little bit off-topic, but as I know that you're all in file managing I may ask it here:

Does anyone know a program (or a hidden TC command ) which displays folders within a directory tree which contain less than a given number of files?

Thanks in advance for any feedback!
~ Florian

[ghisler(Author)]

No I don't, but since you are a programmer, you could write it yourself in half an hour, right?

[fnheiden]

No I don't, but since you are a programmer, you could write it yourself in half an hour, right?

Right

~ Florian

[jdmarch]

This is the sort of task for which the advanced commands (on the comand line or in batch files or aliases) in JPSoftware's Take Command 32 or 4NT are perfect. The following 1-line command will output the names of (and number of files in) any subfolder (at any level), which contains fewer than 20 files. (this could be edited to count only files meeting wildcard or attribute requirements):

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global /i /q if %@files[*] LT 20 echo %_cwd %@files[*]

Or for a more general solution you could define the alias:

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alias fewfiles=global /i /q if %%@files[%%1] LT %%2 echo %%_cwd %%@files[%%1]

and then invoke it like:

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fewfiles * 20
fewfiles *.doc 15

If you prefered you could list (or save to a file) all the filenames in these "small" folders, etc, etc...

You can download a full-featured 30-day trial version from:
http://jpsoftware.com

[fnheiden]

jdmarch,
Thank yor very much! It works very well

With best regards,
~ Florian