Counting lines including subdirectories

[Peter Gordon]

One way to do it using find (the first "$" is your shell prompt):

$ find /path/to/sources/ -iname '*.c' \
  | xargs -n 1 wc -l \
  | cut -d' ' -f1 \
  | (SUM=0; while read NUM; do SUM=$(($SUM+$NUM)); done; echo $SUM)

Replace the /path/to/sources directory and '*.c' extension as you need.
You can also put the whole thing on one line if you'd like (just remove
the backslashes between the lines if you do); but I like to keep the
piped commands on separate lines for clarity. Granted, it's probably not
the most efficient way, but it works... :]


That will give you all file names in that directory (recursive) as well
as the lines count in each of them, such as:


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