Counting line of code with built-in Linux Find

There are a time where we want to estimate how large the code base is

Word count

Let’s see how we count with wc or ‘word count’ with option -l means counting line. You can explore more with wc --help

wc -l your_file_name.txt

Listing file

Then we see how to listing all the file -type f

$ find . -type f

then we seeing something is not very relevant like library they import some package manager logging, pictures etc.

So we can specific an extension of file -o is OR

$ find . -type f -name "*.js" -o -name "*.vue"

this will list all .js and .vue file

Combining these two

we will use Linux pipe and xargs to redirect the output of find to wc

$ find . -type f -name "*.js" -o -name "*.vue" | xargs wc -l

There you go, now you know about approximate size of the code base.

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