Total number of lines in a directory

Question

I have a directory with thousands of files (100K for now). When I use wc -l ./*, I\'ll get:

 c1            ./test1.txt
 c2            ./tes         


        

Answer 1

iF you want to know only total number Lines in directory excluding total line

ls -ltr | sed -n '/total/!p' | awk '{print NR}'

Previous comment will give total count of lines which includes only count of lines in all files