Count lines in a file

Count number of lines in all Java files:

> type *.java | Measure-Object -line

Lines Words Characters Property
----- ----- ---------- --------
 1240

Deconstruction:

• type *.java prints the content of all files matching *.java pattern
• Measure-Object -line counts number of lines

You can also count words and characters with Measure-Object -line -word -character.

Count number of files:

> (ls *.go | measure -line).Lines
13

Deconstruction:

• ls lists files in the directory
• measure is an alias for Measure-Object
• .Lines extracts just the Lines property from result of measure cmdlet, for shorter output