Thursday, June 9, 2011

Recursive wc on a tree of files

Here's how to get the total line count for a tree of files in .

find foldername/ -type f -exec wc -l {} +

The '+' is the key bit, versus '\;' which I think tries to send them one-at-a-time.  Done with cygwin in a windows shell.
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1 comment:

  1. James BakerMay 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM

    The {} + are args to exec; the -l is a wc option. Also used: "find -type f -name *.ext -exec dos2unix {} +"

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