How do I count the total number of words of all files in a directory (and its subdirectories)?

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Using to find all files, then concatenating them with and counting the words in the concatenated stream with : The issue with your command is the will be called multiple times on batches of files if you have many thousands of files to process. In th…

How do I count the total number of words of all files in a directory (and its subdirectories)?

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