John Rye wrote:
Could someone show me how to count the total number of words in a group of
files which are located in the same directory?
cat * | wc -w
better:
wc -w *
Interestingly, the directory I tried it on here (full of Java code) gives 173918 for "cat * | wc -w" and 173920 for "wc -w *".
Cheers, Carl
