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

Credit: this builds on @lifecrisis's answer, and extends it to handle large numbers of files:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l

find will find all of the files in the current directory, break them into groups as large as can be passed as arguments, and run cat on the groups.