Google’s treasure hunt continues to test the community with a range of puzzles to complete, with the second puzzle.

Once again, head over to http://treasurehunt.appspot.com and as before login with your name and email address. You will be presented with a similar question as follows:

Here is a random zip archive for you to download:
GoogleTreasureHunt08_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.zip

Unzip the archive, then process the resulting files to obtain a numeric result. You’ll be taking the sum of lines from files matching a certain description, and multiplying those sums together to obtain a final result. Note that files have many different extensions, like ‘.pdf’ and ‘.js’, but all are plain text files containing a small number of lines of text.

Sum of line X for all files with path or name containing XXX and ending in .XXX
Sum of line X for all files with path or name containing XXX and ending in .XXX
Hint: If the requested line does not exist, do not increment the sum.

Multiply all the above sums together and enter the product below.
(Note: Answer must be an exact, decimal representation of the number.)

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