💾 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, and png. 🔆 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.

I willl keep writing updates. Yaaaaaaay ⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️

#fileCountChallenge #fileCount #XPUB #challenge #terminal #Linux #cmd #CLI #find #grep #filesystem #file #files

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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$' -c
19199 — find | grep '.ttf$' -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

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$' -c
427 — find | grep '.pdf$' -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

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@tommi@pan.rent · 2 weeks ago

💾 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, and png. 🔆 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.

I willl keep writing updates. Yaaaaaaay ⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️

#fileCountChallenge #fileCount #XPUB #challenge #terminal #Linux #cmd #CLI #find #grep #filesystem #file #files

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@FLOX_advocate@floss.social · 3 months ago

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

Attend SeaGL 2025

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@FLOX_advocate@floss.social · 3 months ago

SeaGL talks in 30 min:

* Project Caua Unleashed! from maddog

* grep by example from der.hans

* Migrating Distributed Systems Infrastructure to Serverless: Methodology and Insights from Priya Ananthasankar

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/

Join the conference freely and anonymously - https://seagl.org/attend

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #FLOSSbusiness #Project
Caua #grep #DistributedInfrastructure

Attend SeaGL 2025

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@FLOX_advocate@floss.social · 3 months ago

If you like the "Build a Great Business on Open Source without Selling Your Soul" topic from Robert Hodges check out Maddog's "Project Caua Unleashed!"

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/CVEEAA/

An added advantage is it gives you an excuse to miss my "grep by example" talk at the same time :)

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/9DPTWS/

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #PojectCaua #maddog #grep #CLI #sysadm #FLOSSbusiness @SeaGL

grep by example SeaGL 2025

Do you need to search plain text files? Do you have big files? Lots of tiny files? How about inline searching of command output? Introducing "grep"!!! Find out if grep is the tool for you! Watch as your fingers never leave your hands while you slice and dice plain text! Be amazed as you quickly search through mountains of text to find what you're looking for. But, wait, there's more. There's an entire grep family of tools! * egrep for advanced regular expressions * fgrep to ditch the regular expressions * rgrep to recursively search a filesystem There are also the compression and archival cousins such as: * bzgrep * zgrep * xzgrep * ptargrep Those family members also come as accessory command line switches.

Project Caua Unleashed! SeaGL 2025

Project Caua was launched to help students afford university by helping them to create their own company as a part time job using Free Software and Open Hardware with off-the-shelf components. All the profits go into the pockets of the people that do the work. Democratic socialism at its finest, not one company with a million employees, but a million companies with one (or perhaps two) employees.

FLOX Advocate

@FLOX_advocate@floss.social · 3 months ago

If you like the "Build a Great Business on Open Source without Selling Your Soul" topic from Robert Hodges check out Maddog's "Project Caua Unleashed!"

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/CVEEAA/

An added advantage is it gives you an excuse to miss my "grep by example" talk at the same time :)

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/9DPTWS/

#SeaGL #SeaGL2025 #FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #Seattle #today #PojectCaua #maddog #grep #CLI #sysadm #FLOSSbusiness @SeaGL