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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script: returning the file with the most lines Post 302316848 by ghostdog74 on Sunday 17th of May 2009 02:29:10 AM
Old 05-17-2009
if you have Python, here's an alternative solution
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
temp=0
path=os.path.join("/home","path1","path2")
for r,d,f in os.walk(path):
    for files in f:
        i=0
        try:
            o=open( os.path.join(r,files) )        
        except Exception:pass            
        else:
            for lines in o: i=i+1 #count lines
            o.close()
            if i>=temp: temp=i; final = os.path.join(r,files)
print "File ", final, " has " ,temp ," lines"

output:
Code:
File  /home/path1/path2/file  has  13545528  lines

 

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