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Count all the lines of given directories recursively

In this example want to count the number of lines of every PHP file in two directories, dir-1 and dir-2/subdir:

find {dir-1,dir-2/subdir} -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l

The output is the sumarize of each line:

3212 total
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