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

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

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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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