Count lines in large files

Question

I commonly work with text files of ~20 Gb size and I find myself counting the number of lines in a given file very often.

The way I do it now it\'s just cat fn

Answer 1

find  -type f -name  "filepattern_2015_07_*.txt" -exec ls -1 {} \; | cat | awk '//{ print $0 , system("cat " $0 "|" "wc -l")}'

Output: