On a Windows 7 machine, I'd like a quick way to determine the number of lines in all of the files in a directory tree, for files of a given extension. Is there any good out of the box way to do this?
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1[Do you know a similar program for wc (unix word count command) on Windows?][1] [1]: stackoverflow.com/questions/247234/…– sinpingOct 12, 2011 at 17:50
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I'm familiar with wc, I wish there was a W7 equivellant.– quillbreakerOct 12, 2011 at 18:17
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@ (quillbreaker) There is. The entire Linux/Unix command line toolkit is available for ALL windows based platforms. gnuwin32.sourceforge.net– shawtyApr 20, 2018 at 18:51
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You can use Measure-Object in powershell like this:
PS D:\temp> dir -Recurse *.txt | Get-Content | Measure-Object -Line
Which will return the following:
Lines Words Characters Property
----- ----- ---------- --------
168
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6While your answer is helpful and accepted by the OP, it doesn't correctly answer OP's question. The problem is in the first command in your solution -
dir -Recurse *.txtwill only process directories whose names match*.txt, while outputting all the files that it finds in those directories and their subtrees. But the OP wanted to process all directories while outputting only the files that match*.txt. To do that, you would usedir -Recurse -Include *.txt.– CinnamMay 26, 2016 at 2:19 -
3This is incorrect, the windows help on
Get-ChildItem(whichdiris an alias of) states thatGet-ChildItem –Path "*.txt" -Recurseis all that is needed to get "all of the .txt files in the current directory and its subdirectories." link: technet.microsoft.com/library/hh849800.aspx Aug 27, 2016 at 3:52 -
@AndrewLeap I just tested it again - on Win8 with PowerShell 4.0 it works as you say. However on Win7 with PowerShell 2.0 it has the problem I described.
dir -Recurse -Include *.txtseems to have the desired results on both of these versions.– CinnamSep 1, 2016 at 17:08 -
How would someone use this to check in BOTH *.txt AND *.java (combined total)? Oct 3, 2017 at 15:09
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1@Jeremy, forget to mention that
(dir -Recurse "*.java", (([Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop"))+"\*.txt") | Get-Content | Measure-Object -Line).Linesto get multiple paths or extensions. Just give the dir an array.– SteMar 23, 2021 at 17:02
To expand on maweeras answer above (sorry not enough rep to comment), you can search for multiple file extensions by passing a comma-delimited array to -Include.
So for example:
dir -Recurse -Include *.ts,*.tsx -Exclude *node_modules* | Get-Content | Measure-Object -Line
The following works in cmd:
for %f in (*.TXT) do find /v /c "" "%f"
Or in a [.bat]:
for %%f in (*.TXT) do find /v /c "" "%%f"
One way would be with cloc
Download the release exe
Add the folder its in to the path e.g. in the CLI:
set path=%path%C:\Folder\Path\Cloc\Is\InGo to the top directory you want to analyze
Run the following commands
For analyzing each subfolder separately
for /D %I in (.\*) do cd %I && cloc . && cd ..
For getting a joint report of all subfolders
cloc .
Recursively get all line for your *.ps1;*.cs;*.js;*.txt files
- In the current folder
.:
for /f tokens^=* %i in ('where/r . *.ps1;*.cs;*.js;*.txt^|find/v /c ""')do @echo\ %i
- In the current drive
\:
for /f tokens^=* %i in ('where/r \ *.ps1;*.cs;*.js;*.txt^|find/v /c ""')do @echo\ %i
- In the specified folder
C:\User\Sources:
for /f tokens^=* %i in ('where/r "C:\User\Sources" *.ps1;*.cs;*.js;*.txt^|find/v /c ""')do @echo\ %i
