Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey everyone,

I've to count lines from string of files names then to show sum output of lines.
for example:
read x = F1 F2 F3
F1 = 12 lines
F2 = 14 lines
F3 = 10 lines

= 36

what I did is:

Code:

read x
echo $x >|temp
for x in $(cat temp)
do
wc -l < $x
done >| temp2

Hi Aviv,

Code:

wc -l files

will also give you total line if more than one FILE is specified.
example :

Code:

wc -l file1 file2 file3 file4
 13 file1
  9 file2
  3 file3
  9 file4
 34 total

then u can try below code to get the total number of lines

Code:

wc -l file1 file2 file3 file4  | tail -1 | awk '{ print $1 ; }'

Thanks for your answer,
I tried to use your code but it's not working... you can show me another code without the "awk" command?

sorry it's working but I've to use another command...

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