Bruce replies:
> G. wrts:
> >$ cd ../SPL
> >$ wc -l * | grep total
> >
> >G.
>
> O. Qt.

Actually that's an inefficient and potentially buggy way to do it.

It probably ought to be:

$ wc -l * | tail -1

and, of course, it won't work for QEDIT files and will give you
interesting results if anything in the directory isn't a text file.

I was surprised to find that wc doesn't have an option to only
produce the total line.

G.