How to count the lines of code in a project?

[Bernard El-Hagin]

owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:

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>Hello. How to count the number of lines in all *.c file in a directory?
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>I can think of this on csh:
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>> grep -c "" `find . -name "*.c"` | sed "s/.*:/e=e+/" > /tmp/countlines.py
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>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?


I think a *slightly* better method is to use:


wc -l *.c


;-)


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Cheers,
Bernard