#!/bin/bash

# Joe Gillotti - 11/12/2012 - 1:13AM
# -- 
# Line counter. Recursively totals up line counts, with and
# without empty lines in .txt files in the current directory

lines="$(find . -type f -iname '*.txt' -exec cat {} \;)"
count=$(wc -l <<< "$lines")
noempty=$(sed '/^$/d' <<< "$lines" | wc -l)
echo with empty lines: $count
echo without empty lines: $noempty
echo empty lines: $(expr "$count" - "$noempty")