UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Is there any way to get count number of lines in all files which have more than o bytes in current directory


for example :

in /user/sri/ there are 3 files

abc 0 bytes
def 5 bytes
ghi 10 bytes

i need to get wc -l for all files which have > 0 bytes at a time ..is it possible?

Sri
Since you want to count the number of lines, how does it matter if a file has 0 bytes? You could simply do "cat * | wc -l" to get the line count.

Amit

amit,

My question i how to get all the counts for all files at a time in current directory..If i have 100 files which have greater than 0 byte i need to get count of all files at a time...in that particular directory

Not sure I understand, can you provide an example of the desired output?

Code:

find /dir -size +0 -type f | wc -l

man find.

Rubin,

Thanks for command..But this command displaying number of files in current directory with more than 0 bytes...but i also need number of lines in each individual file which have more than 0 bytes...lets suppose your command gives me 34 files which have more than 0 bytes in current directory..i need in each of 34 files how many lines are there like file a contains 10 lines file b contains 30 lines...like that....Is it possible? let me know...if you are still unclear?

Code:

find /dir -size +0 -type f | xargs wc -l

Or sorted:

Code:

find /dir -size +0 -type f | xargs wc -l | sort           # or sort -rn

For a fancier output you can use awk in the counting statement.