Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Yamaska
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 06:06 pm

Joshua Beall wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Go into the particular project directory and do the following:

find . -type f -exec cat {} \; |wc -l

find . -type f -> will find only files from the current directory and 
recursive
cat will export the lines from each file to standard out
This gets piped with | to wc -l
wc = wordcount
wc -l -> counts lines

Have fun,...

Pete

P.S. fast too

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