💾 The File Count Challenge 🔎
Have you ever wondered how many PDFs, images, videos, or particular kind of files you have on your device? It is the time to find out.
I am hereby proud to officially launch a Fedi-wide file count challenge, in exclusive partnership with the 2025-27 class of @xpub 👾
💁 How to participate
- Go to your main device (not mobile)
- Open the terminal
- Run
find . | grep '.pdf$' -c(on Windows:gci -r | where Name -match '\.pdf$') - Repeat the previous command, replacing “
pdf” with any file format you are interested in sharing. We suggest:jpg,mp3, andpng. 🔆 Bonus:html,js,ttf,odt,svg - Take a screenshot of the output
- Share the screenshot on the Fediverse, using the #fileCountChallenge hashtag (please, copy-paste the actual text from the terminal in the image description/alt text)
- Add your (user)name and results to the scoreboard
- 🆒 Bonus: share the story explaining why you have so many/little files for one format.
🏆 Awards
There is a secret prize for the three people who have the most PDFs, JPEGs, and HTMLs. More info to follow.
Boost, share, fork… Do whatever you want, but please have fun while doing it.
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#fileCountChallenge #fileCount #XPUB #challenge #terminal #Linux #cmd #CLI #find #grep #filesystem #file #files
find | grep '.pdf$' -c
2676
find | grep '.html$' -c
7292
find | grep '.md$' -c
8093
find | grep '.mp4$' -c
1386
find | grep '.jpg$' -c
20561
find | grep '.jxl$' -c
35
find | grep '.ttf$' -c
427
find | grep '.ttf$' -c
427
find | grep '.odt$' -c
637
find | grep '.svg$' -c
3737
find | grep '.mp3$' -c
150
find | grep '.js$' -c
38819
find | grep '.png$' -c
19199
