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Old 02-24-2006
Line counting in Directory
I want to count the no of lines for files (.c and .h) present in a directory structure.
My code is:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Usage: linecount.sh directory_name
for file in  $(find $1 -name [*.ch]); do
        wc -l "$file" >> filecount.txt
done

Problem is that the directory structure is really big and "wc" does not accepts complete path properly. Any suggestions to optimize the code will be really helpful.
# 2  
Old 02-24-2006
You could use awk:
Code:
awk 'END {print NR}' "$file"

# 3  
Old 02-24-2006
What version of unix are you running?
find $1 -name [*.ch]
I don't understand how that is supposed to work. But assuming that it does somehow....

find $1 -name [*.ch] | while read file ; do
# 4  
Old 02-25-2006
Line counting in Directory (Working Code)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
What version of unix are you running?
find $1 -name [*.ch]
I don't understand how that is supposed to work. But assuming that it does somehow....

find $1 -name [*.ch] | while read file ; do
My mistake about the expression. It should have been:
Code:
find $1 -name "*.[ch]"

Your suggestion with while did not work properly. I did some modification and it worked!! The code is as follows:
Code:
find $1 -name "*.[ch]" > file
while read filename
do
    wc -l "$filename" >> file_count.txt
done < file

 
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