Use wc on all subdirectories to count the sum of lines
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.
Solution 1:
You probably want this:
find . -type f -print0 | wc -l --files0-from=-
If you only want the total number of lines, you could use
find . -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
Solution 2:
Perhaps you are looking for exec
option of find
.
find . -type f -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{total += $1} END {print total}'
Solution 3:
To count all lines for specific file extension u can use ,
find . -name '*.fileextension' | xargs wc -l
if you want it on two or more different types of files u can put -o option
find . -name '*.fileextension1' -o -name '*.fileextension2' | xargs wc -l
Solution 4:
Another option would be to use a recursive grep:
grep -hRc '' . | awk '{k+=$1}END{print k}'
The awk simply adds the numbers. The grep
options used are:
-c, --count
Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines
for each input file. With the -v, --invert-match option (see
below), count non-matching lines. (-c is specified by POSIX.)
-h, --no-filename
Suppress the prefixing of file names on output. This is the
default when there is only one file (or only standard input) to
search.
-R, --dereference-recursive
Read all files under each directory, recursively. Follow all
symbolic links, unlike -r.
The grep
, therefore, counts the number of lines matching anything (''), so essentially just counts the lines.
Solution 5:
I would suggest something like
find ./ -type f | xargs wc -l | cut -c 1-8 | awk '{total += $1} END {print total}'