[ale] Simple script question

[Mike Murphy]

find . -type f |xargs cat |wc -l ??

seems to work on the absurdly small test directory I created.

Mke


Bridges, Doug wrote:
> I am trying to write a simple script that will recursively give me a line count of all of the files in a directory.  Here is the command I am trying:
> 
> wc -l < cat `find . -type f -name "*"`
> 
> When I do this, I get:
> bash: cat: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I suspect that some of the files might be too deep, or not exist.  Also, I am doing this on cygwin, I don't know if this is some windows bug creeping in.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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