Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : comp.os.linux
From : ERACC
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 11:34 am

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:51:18 +0000, 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!

A Very Good Idea - search Google. I just found the answer there using
the words - count number lines file - so you can too. Surely you can
figure it out after that? If not come back and say so.

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