How to count total number of lines of found files?

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Mar 15, 202612466 views

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I'm running a to find some files, and I'd like to elegantly get the total number of lines in these files. How can I achieve that?

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find . -name pattern

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If your version of and support the necessary options: which will give you per-file counts as well as a total. If you want only the total: Another option for versions of that support it:

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