Script to show subdirectories that have at least X files in them. Useful for finding big directories without having to crawl the whole thing.

count_limited_files.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: ./count_limited_files.sh /base/dir 1000000

BASE_DIR="$1"
MAX_FILES="$2"

if [[ -z "$BASE_DIR" || -z "$MAX_FILES" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 /base/dir max_file_count"
    exit 1
fi

if [[ ! -d "$BASE_DIR" ]]; then
    echo "Error: $BASE_DIR is not a directory"
    exit 1
fi

for subdir in "$BASE_DIR"/*/; do
    [[ -d "$subdir" ]] || continue  # skip non-dirs

    count=$(find "$subdir" -type f 2>/dev/null | head -n "$MAX_FILES" | wc -l)
    echo "$subdir: $count files (capped at $MAX_FILES)"
done