> wc -l /DEV/SOURCE/* | tail -1
> wc: cannot execute: Arg list too long
>
> The following variation might utilize the available
> command line buffer more effectively but will, of course,
> also fail at a certain amount of files per directory...
>
> shell/iX> cd /DEV/SOURCE ; wc -l * | tail -1
>
> Regards, Lars.
>
The command line isn't infinite, so loops are used to scan over the file set.

#!/bin/sh
NumFiles=0
NumLines=0
for File in *
do
  NumFiles=`expr $NumFiles + 1`
  Lines=`wc -l $File | awk '{ print $1 }'`
  NumLines=`expr $NumLines + $Lines`
done
echo "Files: $NumFiles, Lines: $NumLines"

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