What is the windows equivalent of Linux command wc -l?

Question

I have a piece of code that is meant to send the following to the linux command line:

wc -l C:/inputdirectory/P*

However, I need

Answer 1

How can I count the lines in a set of files?

Use the following batch file (CountLines.cmd):

@echo off
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /f "usebackq" %%a in (`dir /b %1`)  do (
  for /f "usebackq" %%b in (`type %%a ^| find "" /v /c`) do (
    set /a lines += %%b
    )
  )
echo %lines%
endlocal

Usage:

CountLines C:/inputdirectory/P*

Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line - An excellent reference for all things Windows cmd line related.
• dir - Display a list of files and subfolders.
• find - Search for a text string in a file & display all the lines where it is found.
• for /f - Loop command against the results of another command.