Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Dan C
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 12:23 pm

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.

I think this would do it for you:    wc -l filename

man wc for more info

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