Thanks Doug. There are a couple of issues with GC and Measure-Object in that they don't work well with multiple files while also itemizing the individual files. Also, blank lines are not counted in the line count for Measure-Object and newlines are not counted in the character count as they are in the unix wc command. I've modified the above to use Measure-Object but on a line by line basis. It did speed things up a bit.
-Joe