[ThePhoenix]

Hi,

I have developed an Intranet Web Application for one of my clients and as part of my justification for the hours spent and total cost I want to get a total lines of code count. There is a master directory with a few sub directories containing other CFML (Cold Fusion Markup Language) files and image files. I was wondering if there was any UNIX command or simple method for essentially appending each of the files to a "MasterFile" which I can run and then just open that master file in Dreamweaver and get the line count. All together there are around 120 files so far, I can manually each one get the line count and throw that into a calculator or excel file, but I figured there has to be some form of easier unix command to do this.

Thanks,
ThePhoenix

[Sparkletron]

Not a command, exactly. An operator will do...

cal 2005 > test.txt
cat test.txt
cal 2006 >> test.txt
cat test.txt

So you want to...
cat *.txt >> masterfile.txt

...making sure to change .txt to whatever is appropriate in your case. BTW, "wc -l" will count the lines for you.

-S

[Mithras]

Or to handle subdirectories:
find . -name '*.cfm' -exec cat \{\} >> master.txt \;

find finds files
. means to look in the current directory (and subdirectories)
-name '*.cfm' means find only files whose name ends in .cfm
-exec means run the following command on the file. The \{\} means 'put the filename here', and the \; means 'end of the command'
cat \{\} >> master.txt \;, as phoenix explained, copies each file onto the end of master.txt.

then
wc -l master.txt
gives you what you want.

[jfaller]

Easiest way to do a line count is:

wc -l `find . -name \*.cfm -print`

[Those are backwards apostrophes]

This gives a straight line count. I don't know cfm files, but for 'C' I prefer to count semicolons, so I use:

grep \; `find . -name \*.c -print` | wc -l