counting files, directories and subdirectories in a given path

Question

I am trying to figure how to run a simple script "count.sh" that is called together with a path, e.g.:

count.sh /home/users/documents/myScripts

The script will need to iterate over the directories in this path and print how many files and folders (including hidden) in each level of this path.

For example:

1. 7
2. 8
3. 9
4. 10

(myScripts - 7, documents - 8, users -9, home - 10)

And by the way, can I run this script using count.sh pwd?

Answer 1

More or less something like that:

#!/bin/sh

P="$1"

while [ "/" != "$P" ]; do
    echo "$P `find \"$P\" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l`"
    P=`dirname "$P"`;
done
echo "$P `find \"$P\" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l`"

You can use it from the current directory with script.sh `pwd`