Sorry about a typo...should be:
find . -type f -print | \
sed 's/ /\\\\' | xargs wc -l | \
grep ' total$' | awk ' { sum = sum + $1 } ; END { print sum } '
I had an extra "|"..
-Kevin
> [17:03:18][kevin@tokyo:~]$ find . -type f -print | sed 's/ /\\\\ ' |
> xargs \
> > wc -l | grep ' total $' | awk '{sum = sum + $1| ; END {print sum}'
>
> Which took care of all..