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

This will give you the total count for all the files (including hidden files) in your current directory :

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f  | xargs wc -l  | grep total
 1052 total

To count for files excluding hidden files use :

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f  -not -path "*/\.*"  | xargs wc -l  | grep total