count total number of lines in a directory

chuppi · 01-09-2013, 02:06 AM

hi all,

I need a shell script that should print total number of lines in a directory
E.g:- if i have directory(mydir)and that directory contains some files of .c & .h and some other directory(sample)that also have some files.

script should print number of lines of that directory and also sub folders & its files.the output should shows only number of lines(i.e 13245 lines in mydir)

ruario · 01-09-2013, 02:18 AM

Read 'man find' and 'man wc' and you will see how to do it yourself.

Satyaveer Arya · 01-09-2013, 04:00 AM

Code:

# ls | xargs wc -l

maybe this could help you.

Habitual · 01-09-2013, 11:00 AM

Quote:

...I need a shell script that should print total number of lines in a directory ...

s/lines/files

theNbomr · 01-09-2013, 01:30 PM

Is a subdirectory a 'line'? What about '.' and '..'?
Do you really mean something more like 'I want a recursive count of all files in a directory tree'?

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