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Count and sort lines across many files

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find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/themes -type f -name '*.php' -exec wc -l {} + | sort -rn | head -n 20

Finds all files with the given extension, counts their lines with wc -l and sorts in descending order. At the top is the sum as a total line (or insgesamt with a German locale), followed by the longest files. Useful for estimating the size of a theme or plugin, or for spotting unusually large individual files.

Note: With very many files, find calls wc several times, so several subtotals appear.

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Number the lines of a file

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Print a specific range of lines from a file

$sed -n '100,120p;120q' /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php
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Calculate the total size of all files of one type

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads -type f -iname '*.mp4' -printf '%s\n' | awk '{s+=$1; n++} END {printf "%d Dateien, %.1f MB\n", n, s/1048576}'
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Convert images to AVIF recursively

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads -type f \( -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' -o -iname '*.png' \) -exec sh -c 'for f; do [ -e "$f.avif" ] || avifenc -s 6 "$f" "$f.avif" >/dev/null; done' sh {} +
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Convert images to WebP recursively

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads -type f \( -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' -o -iname '*.png' \) -exec sh -c 'for f; do [ -e "$f.webp" ] || cwebp -quiet -q 80 "$f" -o "$f.webp"; done' sh {} +
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Delete empty directories recursively

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -print -delete
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