I don't know if I'm wording it correctly, but I'm counting file types and outputting the results into a file, and instead of there just being numbers, I'm trying to identify what each number is. Sooo basically right now I have:
$ find . -type f -iname *.jpg* | wc -l > Test.md $ find . -type f -iname *.png* | wc -l >> Test.md $ find . -type f -iname *.tiff* | wc -l >> Test.md and when I cat Test.md I get:
$ cat Test.md 13 10 8 and what I'm trying to do is:
JPG: 13 PNG: 10 TIFF: 8 So just add the string without a newline before the count.
: > Test.md # truncate the file echo -n "JPG: " >> Test.md find . -type f -iname '*.jpg*' | wc -l >> Test.md echo -n "PNG: " >> Test.md find . -type f -iname '*.png*' | wc -l >> Test.md echo -n "TIFF: " >> Test.md find . -type f -iname '*.tiff*' | wc -l >> Test.md or like, grab the output of wc with command substitution, and pass to echo to do some formatting:
echo "JPG: $(find . -type f -iname '*.jpg*' | wc -l)" > Test.md echo "PNG: $(find . -type f -iname '*.png*' | wc -l)" >> Test.md echo "TIFF: $(find . -type f -iname '*.tiff*' | wc -l)" >> Test.md Note: quote the *.jpg* argument for find inside single (or double) quotes to prevent filename expansion on the argument. find needs the argument with *, not literal filenames after the shell expansion.
What I would do using a here-doc :
cat<<EOF>Test.md JPG: $(find . -type f -iname '*.jpg*' | wc -l) PNG: $(find . -type f -iname '*.png*' | wc -l) TIFF: $(find . -type f -iname '*.tiff*' | wc -l) EOF 