Find the location that you want to search in, change into that location.
wc -w **/*.md
This will do a word count recursively over the directory and count all the words in files with the extension of .md.
How to count how many lines are in a git project?
The following will print out all the line numbers in
the entire project just cd into the directory.
git ls-files | xargs cat | wc -l
But hold on, I want to see how many lines are in each file
and then show me the complete number of lines of code.
No problem!
wc -l $(git ls-files)
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