Bash - Count Lines

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This one-liner will read in the contents of the current directory and count the number of lines in all the files producing a total sum. (Change 'ls *.php' to just 'ls' to count all files)

count=0; for i in $(ls *.php); do count=$(( $count + $(cat $i|wc -l) )); done; echo $count