How to write the wc's stdout into a file?

Question

The below command will show how many characters contains in every file in current directory.

find  -name '*.*' |xargs  wc -c  

I want to write the standout into a file.

find  -name '*.*' |xargs  wc -c  > /tmp/record.txt

It encounter an issue:

wc: .: Is a directory

How to write all the standard output into a file?

Answer 1

Why -name '*.*'? That will not find every file and will find directories. You need to use -type f, and better than piping the result to xargs is using -exec:

find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec wc -c {} + > /tmp/record.txt

-maxdepth 1 guarantees that the search won't dive in subdirectories.

Answer 2

Filter only files, if you want only files.

find -type f

Answer 3

I think you maybe meant find |xargs wc -c?

find -name '.' just returns .