To count all the files by file extension recursively on the command line $ find . -type f | sed -n ’s/..*.//p’ | sort | uniq -c 40 3g2 5 AVI 13 DS_Store 28 JPG 30 MOV 133 MP4 64 THM 1 docx 18 jpg 1 json 4 m3u 89 m4a 2 m4r 156 m4v 41 mkv 112 mov 38 mp3 587 mp4 1 nfo 2 osp 30 png 1 sh 4 srt 6 svg 10 torrent 6 txt 5 webm 10 zip