Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Calculations

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May 26, 2012, 07:23

Hi danial use this it will give u correct count

find . -name *.java| awk 'END {print NR}'

when you are using xargs it is taking the count of all content present in side a particular file, that's why it is giving the count of content present in files

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