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Write a Bash script that counts the number of lines in all text files in the current directory.

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What does the following script do?

#bin/bash

counter=0

for file in ./*.txt
do
  line=$(wc -l $file | cut -d" " -f1);
  counter=$(($counter+$line))
done
echo "$counter"
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