Mastering Linux Shell Scripting

Counting directories and files

We can use a simple for loop to iterate over folder content and use an if statement to check whether the path is a directory or a file:

#!/bin/bash 
for path in /home/likegeeks/* 
do 
   if [ -d "$path" ] 
   then 
         echo "$path is a directory" 
   elif [ -f "$path" ] 
   then 
         echo "$path is a file" 
   fi 
done 

This is pretty straightforward script. We iterate over directory content and then we use an if statement to check whether the path is a directory or a file. Finally, we print beside each path whether it's a file or a directory.

We used quotes for the path variable because the file could contain a space.