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Suffice to say that you can read the manpage and info pages to answer your questions. However,  === Mime report ===This example finds and counts files by their extension. A "poor-man's mime-report"<source lang="bash" line>for x in \ $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | \ sort | \ grep -v ^./$ ); \do \ echo -e "\n\n$x\n"; \ find "$x" -type f | \ egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | \ sort | \ uniq -c ; \done</source>Breakdown:<pre> 2. look for directories that are immediate descendants of the current directory 3. sort them 4. don't include hidden directories 6. with these: echo the name of the directory as a 'heading' in the report 7. find the files per directory 8. match only on the extensions found (between two and four-letter extensions) 9. sort them</pre>10. count and summarize by unique values But it looks more impressive as a one-liner:<source lang="bash">for x in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d|sort|grep -v ^./$); do echo -e "\n\n$x\n"; find "$x" -type f | egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | sort | uniq -c ; done</source> === Prune ===In case you are trying to figure out the prune option so that you can efficiently scan a directory for something while also ignoring .svn metadata, here is an example: