Replacing tree with eza - total directories/files count

[tony-sol]

I want to switch from tree, with these aliases

alias tt='tree -a -l --metafirst -N -p -u -g -h -D -F --dirsfirst --hyperlink'
alias t='tt -L 1'

alias ee='eza --long --tree --classify=auto --color=auto --icons=auto --hyperlink --follow-symlinks --almost-all --group-directories-first --smart-group --time=changed --git --git-repos'
alias e='ee --level 1 --git-repos-no-status'

Result is almost the same, e.g.:

❯ t ~/.ssh
[drwxr-xr-x tony     tony      164 Oct 18 03:41]  /home/tony/.ssh/
[drwxr-xr-x tony     tony      212 May 20 05:45]  ├── keys/
[-rw-r--r-- tony     tony      254 Dec 29  2024]  ├── allowed_signers
[-rw-r--r-- tony     tony       97 Dec 28  2024]  ├── authorized_keys
[-rw-r--r-- tony     tony      325 May 21 19:02]  ├── config
[-rw------- tony     tony     2.7K Oct 18 03:41]  ├── known_hosts
[-rw------- tony     tony     1.9K Oct 18 03:41]  ├── known_hosts.old
[-rw-r--r-- tony     tony      968 Oct 18 00:07]  └── .override.config

2 directories, 6 files
❯ e ~/.ssh
drwxr-xr-x    - tony 23 Oct 19:18 󰢬 /home/tony/.ssh/
drwxr-xr-x    - tony 18 Jul 16:45 ├──  keys/
.rw-r--r--  968 tony 18 Oct 00:07 ├── 󱁻 .override.config
.rw-r--r--  254 tony 18 Jul 16:45 ├── 󰡯 allowed_signers
.rw-r--r--   97 tony 18 Jul 16:45 ├── 󰣀 authorized_keys
.rw-r--r--  325 tony 18 Jul 16:45 ├── 󱁻 config
.rw------- 2.7k tony 18 Oct 03:41 ├── 󰣀 known_hosts
.rw------- 1.9k tony 18 Oct 03:41 └──  known_hosts.old

But here is the question - is there a way to make eza print total directories/files count like tree does?

[shreechaturvedi]

There's no built-in flag for it. You can wrap eza in a function that appends the counts:

etree() {
  eza --long --tree --classify=auto --color=auto --icons=auto \
      --hyperlink --follow-symlinks --almost-all \
      --group-directories-first --smart-group --time=changed \
      --git --git-repos "$@"

  local dirs files
  dirs=$(eza -1 -D -R "$@" 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
  files=$(eza -1 -f -R "$@" 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
  printf '\n%d directories, %d files\n' "$dirs" "$files"
}

-D is short for --only-dirs, -f for --only-files, -R for --recurse. The "$@" passes your target path and any extra flags through to all three calls.

Drop that in your .bashrc/.zshrc and alias over it if you want (alias ee='etree').