Total number of lines in a directory

Question

I have a directory with thousands of files (100K for now). When I use wc -l ./*, I\'ll get:

 c1            ./test1.txt
 c2            ./tes         


        

Answer 1

awk 'END {print NR" total"}' ./*

Would be an interesting comparison to find out how many lines don’t end with a new line.

Combining the awk and Gordon’s find solutions and avoiding the “.” files.

find ./* -maxdepth 0 -type f -exec awk ‘END {print NR}’ {} +

No idea if this is better or worse but it does give a more accurate count (for me) and does not count lines in “.” files. Using ./* is just a guess that appears to work.

Still need depth and ./* requires “0” depth.

I did get the same result with the “cat” and “awk” solutions (using the same find) since the “cat *” takes care of the new line issue. I don’t have a directory with enough files to measure time. Interesting, I’m liking the “cat” solution.