Easily sum matching file line counts
This command will return the number of total lines contained in files ending in .py in the directory it is run in, as well as subdirectories:
1 2 | find . -type f -iname *py | xargs -I str wc -l str | \ awk '{SUM += $1} END {print SUM}' |
Just change .py to whatever file type you want to get the count.
I wanted to add this as a Bash alias, passing in the filetype as an argument. This would make the whole affair much easier. But when I tried it as an alias, or as a function, I always got 0 back. Running “type” on the alias name returned:
1 2 | pylines is aliased to `find . -type f -iname *py | xargs -I str \ wc -l str | awk '{SUM += bell-style} END {print SUM}'' |
If anyone has any insight into this, please share.
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April 29, 2009 - 7:58 PM
