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$ countfiles.py -h
usage: countfiles.py [-h] [-nr] [-nt] [-alpha] [-a] [path]

Recursively count all files in a directory, grouped by file extension.

positional arguments:
  path        The path to the folder containing the files to be counted.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -nr         Don't recurse through subdirectories
  -nt         Don't show the table, only the total number of files
  -alpha      Sort the table alphabetically, by file extension.
  -a          Include hidden files and directories (with filenames starting
              with '.')

$ countfiles.py

Recursively counting all files, ignoring hidden files and directories, in the current directory.

 EXTENSION | FREQ.
-----------+-------
 png       |    82
 html      |    66
 css       |    28
 jpg       |    26
 svg       |    13
 xml       |    10
 ico       |     1
 md        |     1
 txt       |     1
 js        |     1
-----------+-------
 TOTAL:    |   229
-----------+-------

$ countfiles.py / -a -nt

Recursively counting all files, including hidden files and directories, in:
/.

Total number of files in selected directory: 1998700.