Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
From : R.F. Pels
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 10:35 pm

John Cholewa wrote:

> find . -type f | sed 's/$/"/;s/^/"/' | xargs wc -l
> 
> Done this way, "wc" is given all the files on the same line, and when that
> happens, wc gives a total.  This may puke if you have a few thousand or
> more files in your project, though.  Also, the "sed" stuff is there to put
> quotes around the file names, just in case there are spaces in any of
> them.

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

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