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Subject: Re: How to count the lines of code in a project?
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

>
> Hello. How to count the number of lines in all *.c file in a directory?
>
> I can think of this on csh:
>
> > grep -c "" `find . -name "*.c"` | sed "s/.*:/e=e+/" > /tmp/countlines.py
>
> And edit the py file, and "e=0" as first line, "print e" as the last
> line, and execute the python script. wooo pretty cool for a newbie like
> me:)
>
> So is there a better method?

Not bad; but when it comes to basic operations on text files, unix has a
surfeit of tools that probably already do what you want. In this case:

	find . -type f -name \*.c -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l



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