Getting error “xargs unterminated quote” when tried to print the number of lines in terminal

Question

I want to get the number of lines in my application. I am using this code:

find . \"(\" -name \"*.m\" -or -name \"*.h\" \")\" -print | xargs wc -l

Answer 1

The canonical way to solve quotes, spaces and special characters problems when using find is to use the -exec option instead of xargs.

For your case you can use:

find . "(" -name "*.m" -or -name "*.h" ")" -exec wc -l "{}" \;