wc gzipped files?

I have a directory with both uncompressed and gzipped files and want to run wc -l on this directory. wc will provide a line count value for the compressed files which is not accurate (since it seems to count newlines in the gzipped version of the file). Is there a way to create a zwc script similar to zgrep that will detected the gzipped files and count the uncompressed lines?

From stackoverflow

• Try this zwc script:

  #! /bin/bash --
  for F in "$@"; do
    echo "$(zcat -f <"$F" | wc) $F"
  done
  

  Reef : It should be "echo "$(zcat -f <"$F" | wc -l) $F"

  pseinstein : Thanks, this works great.

  Chas. Owens : or $(zgrep -c "" $F)