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That worked like a charm.  Xargs seems to be one the most powerful tools in Linux.

Doug

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find . -type f |xargs cat |wc -l ??

seems to work on the absurdly small test directory I created.

Mke


Bridges, Doug wrote:
&gt; I am trying to write a simple script that will recursively give me a line count of all of the files in a directory.  Here is the command I am trying:
&gt; 
&gt; wc -l &lt; cat `find . -type f -name &quot;*&quot;`
&gt; 
&gt; When I do this, I get:
&gt; bash: cat: No such file or directory
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; I suspect that some of the files might be too deep, or not exist.  Also, I am doing this on cygwin, I don't know if this is some windows bug creeping in.
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