The following scripts was sent in by Simon Millard and works really well 
on getting stats you can use on a directory.
Enjoy!  and thanks Simon.
Dion
## tool to display the number of directories, files and blocks from
# a parent directory#
PID=`ps | head -2 | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`
OUTFILE=/tmp/filesysanal.$PID
ls -a | tail +3 > $OUTFILE
echo "Analysis of `pwd`  - This may take some time"echo " "
echo "Filename\t\t\tType\t   Files\t1024K blocks"
echo "========\t\t\t====\t   =====\t====="
for i in `cat $OUTFILE`
do
        TYPE=`file $i | awk '{print $2}'`
        case "$TYPE" in
                "directory") FILETYPE="DIR";;
        esac
        FILES=`find $i -print -type f | wc -l`
        BLOCKS=`du -sk $i | awk '{print $1}'`
        NAME=`echo $i | awk '{printf ( "%-25.25s", $1)}'`
        echo "$NAME\t$FILETYPE\t$FILES\t$BLOCKS"
done
rm $OUTFILE
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Received on Tue Sep 29 1998 - 00:11:58 NZST