My Green Jar » Terminal http://www.mygreenjar.com [[brain alloc] init] Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Recursive Word Count in Terminal http://www.mygreenjar.com/2007/01/02/recursive-word-count-in-terminal/ http://www.mygreenjar.com/2007/01/02/recursive-word-count-in-terminal/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:31:39 +0000 Adam http://www.mygreenjar.com/2007/01/02/recursive-word-count-in-terminal/ I’ve recently wondered about how to recursively count the number of lines within a series of files within a directory hierarchy. The command that I came up with is:
wc -l `find . -name \*.java -print`
The output is very readable, since it prints both the filename and the number of lines.
Enjoy!

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