Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Joe User
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 11:16 am

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:51:18 +0000, Joshua Beall wrote:

> 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.
<snip>

Something like:

find . -iname '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0r cat | wc -l

I did not test it, but something like that should work.
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