How to count the total number of lines in multiple files using a bash script

You can use find and awk to counting the total number of lines in multiple files

Solution

Using the usual GNU tools, you can write the following script (replace "*.java" with your language file type):

find . -name "*.java" -exec wc -l '{}' \; | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }'

You can put this command in a bash script or create and alias

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