I'd like to analyse a file system to explore:

• File names (File::Find)
• File owner (stat)
• File creation and access data (stat)
• File size (stat)
• File type (file(1))
• File uniqueness (MD5)
• Metadata (eg. properties info in MS Office docs)
• Frequent content (eg. keywords in docs)

Are there any scripts or modules that do this in an integrated/analytical way? Ideally they'd provide some graphs of usage (eg. 10% of files by size are .doc, 20% .xls, 40% .jpg; or 30% of files were last accessed +12 months ago; or the top 10 non-common words appearing in your .docs are ..., etc.)

thanks!
Nathan

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