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Make a statistic about the lines of code

Terminal - Make a statistic about the lines of code
find . -type f -name "*.c" -exec cat {} \; | wc -l
2009-07-30 10:06:51
User: foremire
Functions: cat find wc
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Make a statistic about the lines of code

use find to grep all .c files from the target directory, cat them into one stream, then piped to wc to count the lines

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Terminal - Alternatives
find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
2009-09-08 08:25:45
User: karpoke
Functions: awk find tail wc xargs
Tags: awk find wc
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Make a statistic about the lines of code

This is really fast :)

time find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'

204753

real 0m0.191s

user 0m0.068s

sys 0m0.116s

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find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'
2009-09-04 15:51:30
User: arcege
Functions: awk find wc
Tags: awk find wc
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Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).

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What others think

To ignore whitespace only lines in the count, use grep which can both search and count:

find . -type f -name "*.c" -exec cat {} + | grep -Evc '^[:space:]*$'

This will also be faster due changing \; to +.

Comment by bwoodacre 198 weeks and 4 days ago

Yeah, using + at the end of -exec is much faster than \;

Thanks

Comment by foremire 198 weeks and 3 days ago

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