Shell Programming and Scripting

wc -l|sort -rn

wc -l | sort -rn | head -2 | tail -1

#!/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"

File  /home/path1/path2/file  has  13545528  lines

find . -type f -exec wc -l {} \;| sort -rn |head -1