Find and count file type

[j99mac]

I am looking to run a commend to find a .jpg or .gif in a directory or subdirectories and get the total count.
This what i have ""find . type f | grep -o ".[^.]+$" | sort | uniq -c"". What do i need to add to the script to have exclude directory folder00 when it dose the find?

[Phil Harvey]

WIth ExifTool you could do this:

exiftool -aaa -if '$filetype eq "JPEG"' DIR

It should list the files it finds, the print a summary like this:

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    1 directories scanned
   82 files failed condition
   21 image files read

The last line tells you how many JPEG files it found.

- Phil

[greybeard]

To exclude folder00 from your find command and pick up jpg or gif files it would be something like this:

find . -path "./folder00" -prune -false -o \( -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.gif" \) -print 

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve

[Luuk2005]

Im also not understanding the exact goal, so this some more examples to experiment with using the exiftool...
To list all jpegs and gifs (not caring about file-extensions), and being prejudice against 'folder00' as the parent-folder...
exiftool -r -if '$filetype =~ /(JPEG|GIF)/ and $directory !~ /\/folder00$$/' -p '$filepath'  .

If only wanting the total-sentence from above, can pipe to sed like...
exiftool -v0 -r -if '$filetype =~ /(JPEG|GIF)/ and $directory !~ /\/folder00$$/' . |sed -n '$p'

If only wanting the total-number from above, can pipe to sed like...
exiftool -v0 -r -if '$filetype =~ /(JPEG|GIF)/ and $directory !~ /\/folder00$$/' . |sed -n '$s/ *\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p'

The commands are only being prejudice against parent-folder, so including images settled like... C:/path/folder00/AnotherFolder/image.ext
If to be prejudice against all folders named 'folder00' anywhere in the path, but also granting folders like 'aafolder00zz' ...
You can modify /\/folder00$$/ ===> /\/folder00($$|\/)/

[StarGeek]

The -i (-Ignore) option would be better than using an -if as long as you're not looking for a partial directory name.

But the original question really was more a linux/Mac command line question, so maybe this belongs in Other Discussions?

[Luuk2005]

Greetings StarGeek and welcome back! I was worried that maybe something bad happens to you?
Im never used this -i option before, but -i folder00 seems much better to exclude images anywhere below any folder named 'folder00'.
So the first -if would really only be better, if wanting to be prejudice against 'folder00' only when its a parent-folder, so being very unlikely.

Im really no idea what is the exact goal, but glad to know about the -i option, because Im always just conducting this with -if instead.
Now looking at his question, Im also thinking maybe he just wanted a shell script? Anyways, its good that you are back now!

[StarGeek]

Greetings StarGeek and welcome back! I was worried that maybe something bad happens to you?

I have a failing HD the was intermittently corrupting files and was worried about losing thousands of pictures I've taken.  See this post.