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How can I count all lines of all files in all subdirectories with wc?
cd mydir wc -l * .. 11723 total man wc suggests wc -l --files0-from=-, but I do not know how to generate the list of all files as NUL-terminated names
find . -print | wc -l --files0-from=- did not work.
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wc. The wc command is used to find the number of lines, characters, words, and bytes of a file. To find the number of lines using wc, we add the -l option. This will give us the total number of lines and the name of the file.
The easiest way to count files in a directory on Linux is to use the “ls” command and pipe it with the “wc -l” command. The “wc” command is used on Linux in order to print the bytes, characters or newlines count. However, in this case, we are using this command to count the number of files in a directory.
First, the find command fetches all C language files and header files in the src and include directories, respectively. Secondly, all files are passed one by one to wc command via xargs. So the wc command will perform the count of the number of lines for each file.
You probably want this:
find . -type f -print0 | wc -l --files0-from=- If you only want the total number of lines, you could use
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