Counting lines including subdirectories

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Mon Dec 18 06:53:06 UTC 2006


On 18Dec2006 17:14, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) <matt.baluyos.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
| Would anyone know of a one-liner that allows you to count the number
| of lines including the subdirectories? I'm trying to find out how many
| lines of code there are in a web application.
| 
| It would also be better if it has an option to exclude specific file 
| extensions.

find ...various-options... -exec cat {} ';' | wc -l

See "man find" for details.
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