Recursive Wordcount (March 25, 2009)
Yes, I am a Linux user and I really appreciate the freedom I get by using either an awesome desktop environment or the command line - or both!
The function I’m going to present you gives you a good overview of how many words, lines and bytes files in a given folder have. I’m speaking about wc.
The bash script I wrote applies wc to every web file in a folder and every sub folder. Web files are:
*.php*.html / *.htm*.tpl*.sql*.js*.css.htaccess- files without an extension (e.g.
README)
Furthermore you can exclude folders by using the -e parameter. I needed that feature to exclude scripts which are not written by me (see below). But because of that I have had to commit a sin: using eval…
Recursive wc
#!/bin/bash
# usage
# -s = search path
# -e = excluded paths
# examples:
# current folder: ./wc.sh
# other folder: ./wc.sh -s ../foobar/
# exclude folder: ./wc.sh -e "*/foobar/*"
# exclude folder: ./wc.sh -e "*/folder1/*" -e "*/folder2/*"
# default params
SEARCH_PATH="./"
EXCLUDE=""
# read command line params
while getopts "s:e:" PARAM
do
case "${PARAM}" in
s) SEARCH_PATH="$OPTARG";;
e) EXCLUDE=$EXCLUDE" -not -path \"$OPTARG\"";;
esac
done
if [ "$EXCLUDE" = "" ]
then
find $SEARCH_PATH \
-regextype posix-egrep \
-type f \
-regex ".*(\.(php|html?|tpl|css|sql|js))$" \
-or -name ".htaccess" \
| xargs wc
else
# evil eval
eval 'find $SEARCH_PATH \
-regextype posix-egrep \
-type f \
\( -regex ".*(\.(php|html|tpl|css|sql|js))$" \
-or -name ".htaccess" \)\
'$EXCLUDE' \
| xargs wc'
fi