Count number of lines of .gz files recursively on directory?

You were quite there...:

find . -type f -name '*.gz' | xargs zcat | wc -l

bash shell unix

gzip -dc *.gz | wc -l

-d decompress-c to STDOUT (not to disk)

gzip -dcr * | wc -l

-d decompress

-c to STDOUT (not to disk)

-r recursive (look in directorties)

bash shell unix

my directory:

.├── a.gz├── b.gz└── t    └── f.gz

command to echo and count lines of every gz file found:

find . -type f -name '*.gz' -exec bash -c 'echo $1;gunzip -c $1 | wc -l' dummy {} \;

output:

./a.gz5./b.gz6./t/f.gz3

then, in order to obtain a grand total:

echo $((`find . -type f -name '*.gz' -exec bash -c 'gunzip -c $1 | wc -l' dummy {} \;  | paste -sd+`))

output:

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