Subj : Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
From : Joshua Beall
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 01:51 pm

Hi All,

What I really want to do is get the cumulative number of lines in many
files, recursing into subdirectories.  I want to see how many lines of code
are in the PHP project I am working on right now.  I don't know of any quick
way of doing this, and I have even thought about writing a quick PHP script
that will do it for me, but I don't want to do that if there is a bit of
shell wizardry that would be able to accomplish this for me.

I am running Mandrake 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16mdk, and I generally use bash,
though I have tcsh, zsh, ksh, and csh installed as well (perhaps a few
others I'm not aware of; I think I installed all the shells available in
MDK9.0)

Thanks for any ideas!

  -Josh

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