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💾 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

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

  1. Go to your main device (not mobile)
  2. Open the terminal
  3. Run find . | grep '.pdf$' -c (Windows equivalent suggestions welcome)
  4. 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
  5. Take a screenshot of the output
  6. Share the screenshot on the Fediverse, using the hashtag (please, copy-paste the actual text from the terminal in the image description/alt text)
  7. Add your (user)name and results to the scoreboard
  8. 🆒 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.

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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 19199find | 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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