Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : comp.os.linux
From : J. David Boyd
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 02:07 pm

"Joshua Beall" <jbeall@donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us> wrote in
news:aR7Mc.24348$Iz3.12150@nwrddc01.gnilink.net: 

> 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
> 
> 
> 

gross methodology, but here goes (I've used variants of this myself):

cat `find . -name \*.php` | wc -l

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