RE: counting number of lines...

["Ajay Bansal" <Ajay_Bansal infosys com>]

1. total no of lines in all the files in a directory - "cat *|wc -l"
   caution - will also include the binary files
2. folowing script
---
   count=0
   for tmpFile in *
   do
   file $tmpFile |grep text
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]
   then
	line=`cat $tmpFile wc -l`
	count=`expr $count + $line`
   fi
   done
   echo $count
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-----Original Message-----
From: João Borsoi Soares [mailto:joao intrasystems com br] 
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 4:34 PM
To: redhat-list redhat com

Does anyone knows how can I count the total number of lines of many files in a directory?

Thanks,
Joao.





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