Getting the count of lines in a subdirectoryEdit

Example: cumulative total:

$ find . -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l

Example: per file counts and total:

$ find . -regex '.+\.js$' | xargs wc -l

Source

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13727917/use-wc-on-all-subdirectories-to-count-the-sum-of-lines
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/104756/how-do-you-count-your-lines-of-code

Alternatives

• http://cloc.sourceforge.net/ (Perl tool for counting source code)