Hello all,

Is anybody aware of any free utility for calculating number of lines in a multi-file (40-50 files language C, platform RedHat 9.0) code. Ideally I am looking for something that may work like this:

<utility_name> input >> *.c output << < total number of lines in *.c>>

I checked out programmers_heaven.com. There are some utilities like this for MS Windows, but they operate on single file. I thought about using cat or grep, but it does'nt seem like a smart idea.

Here's how this question came about: I recently had an interview with a FEA s/w development company. The interviewer asked me how many lines is your code ? I told the interviewer that I never kept track of that!

Thanks Abhijit

You're using Unix, right? The command you want is wc -l So:

cat *.c | wc -l

for all .c files in a directory; or more complex:

find . -type f -name "*.[ch]pp" -exec cat {} \; | wc -l

to find all files .hpp and .cpp files in the currect directory tree and count them. For more info, read man pages

Hello Dr. Jasak,

wow! you nailed it. Thanks for your answer.

Abhijit

and if u are in windows .... and want to count lines in VS project .. isaw one program on codeproject.com that does that for you.