Find the number of lines in a project with powershell

Question

I'm trying to find a way to count the total number of lines in all of the source files of a project I have. I've tried piping dir -r -name into measure-object -line, but that just counts the number of files I have.

Does anyone have a script to do this?

Answer 1

dir *.txt -recurse | select Fullname,@{name="LineCount";expression={ @(get-content $.fullname).count }}

Answer 2

Get-ChildItem . -Include *.txt -Recurse | foreach {(Get-Content $_).Count}

Condensed down a bit with aliases:

GCI . -Include *.txt -Recurse | foreach{(GC $_).Count}

Will give results similar to this:

Lines Words               Characters              Property
----- -----               ----------              --------
   21
   40
   29
   15
  294
   13
   13
  107

EDIT: Modified to recurse through subfolders.

EDIT 2: Removed use of Measure-Object.

Answer 3

Thanks to everyone who answered. The way I ended up implementing this was

dir . -filter "*.cs" -Recurse -name | foreach{(GC $_).Count} | measure-object -sum

Answer 4

Get-ChildItem -Filter "*.cs" -Recurse | Get-Content | Measure-Object -line