Subj : Re: Getting the number of lines in a file
To   : alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
From : ptb
Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 08:50 pm

In alt.os.linux John Cholewa <usenet@jc-newsnospam.com> 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.

That's not necesary. The convention is to go

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

if you are really concerned about whitespace (not just spaces) in names.
You might want to remove empty lines and lines which contain only
comments.

Peter

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