diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 772530a3c12..f7e7b24aa9b 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-3811: Query Form using wrong values for dismax, edismax (steffkes)
 
+* SOLR-3779: DataImportHandler's LineEntityProcessor when used in conjunction 
+  with FileListEntityProcessor would only process the first file.
+  (Ahmet Arslan via James Dyer)
+
 Other Changes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EntityProcessor.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EntityProcessor.java
index 81f68c44fe4..5122dcb0bea 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EntityProcessor.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EntityProcessor.java
@@ -89,8 +89,7 @@ public abstract class EntityProcessor {
   public abstract Map<String, Object> nextModifiedParentRowKey();
 
   /**
-   * Invoked for each parent-row after the last row for this entity is processed. If this is the root-most
-   * entity, it will be called only once in the import, at the very end.
+   * Invoked for each entity at the very end of the import to do any needed cleanup tasks.
    * 
    */
   public abstract void destroy();
diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/LineEntityProcessor.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/LineEntityProcessor.java
index 00d813630b2..5b919bb1690 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/LineEntityProcessor.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/LineEntityProcessor.java
@@ -115,7 +115,11 @@ public class LineEntityProcessor extends EntityProcessorBase {
              "Problem reading from input", exp);
       }
   
-      if (line == null) return null; // end of input       
+      // end of input
+      if (line == null) {
+        closeResources();
+        return null;
+      }
 
       // First scan whole line to see if we want it
       if (acceptLineRegex != null && ! acceptLineRegex.matcher(line).find()) continue;
@@ -126,13 +130,17 @@ public class LineEntityProcessor extends EntityProcessorBase {
       return row;
     }
   }
+  
+  public void closeResources() {
+    if (reader != null) {
+      IOUtils.closeQuietly(reader);
+    }
+    reader= null;
+  }
 
     @Override
     public void destroy() {
-      if (reader != null) {
-        IOUtils.closeQuietly(reader);
-      }
-      reader= null;
+      closeResources();
       super.destroy();
     }
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestFileListWithLineEntityProcessor.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestFileListWithLineEntityProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6800ba83e4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestFileListWithLineEntityProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.apache.solr.request.LocalSolrQueryRequest;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+public class TestFileListWithLineEntityProcessor extends AbstractDataImportHandlerTestCase {
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void beforeClass() throws Exception {
+    initCore("dataimport-solrconfig.xml", "dataimport-schema.xml");
+  }
+  
+  public void test() throws Exception {
+    File tmpdir = File.createTempFile("test", "tmp", TEMP_DIR);
+    tmpdir.delete();
+    tmpdir.mkdir();
+    tmpdir.deleteOnExit();
+    createFile(tmpdir, "a.txt", "a line one\na line two\na line three".getBytes(), false);
+    createFile(tmpdir, "b.txt", "b line one\nb line two".getBytes(), false);
+    createFile(tmpdir, "c.txt", "c line one\nc line two\nc line three\nc line four".getBytes(), false);
+    
+    String config = generateConfig(tmpdir);
+    LocalSolrQueryRequest request = lrf.makeRequest(
+        "command", "full-import", "dataConfig", config,
+        "clean", "true", "commit", "true", "synchronous", "true", "indent", "true");
+    h.query("/dataimport", request);
+    
+    assertQ(req("*:*"), "//*[@numFound='9']");
+    assertQ(req("id:?\\ line\\ one"), "//*[@numFound='3']");
+    assertQ(req("id:a\\ line*"), "//*[@numFound='3']");
+    assertQ(req("id:b\\ line*"), "//*[@numFound='2']");
+    assertQ(req("id:c\\ line*"), "//*[@numFound='4']");    
+  }
+  
+  private String generateConfig(File dir) {
+    return
+    "<dataConfig> \n"+
+    "<dataSource type=\"FileDataSource\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" name=\"fds\"/> \n"+
+    "    <document> \n"+
+    "       <entity name=\"f\" processor=\"FileListEntityProcessor\" fileName=\".*[.]txt\" baseDir=\"" + dir.getAbsolutePath() + "\" recursive=\"false\" rootEntity=\"false\"  transformer=\"TemplateTransformer\"> \n" +
+    "             <entity name=\"jc\" processor=\"LineEntityProcessor\" url=\"${f.fileAbsolutePath}\" dataSource=\"fds\"  rootEntity=\"true\" transformer=\"TemplateTransformer\"> \n" +
+    "              <field column=\"rawLine\" name=\"id\" /> \n" +
+    "             </entity> \n"+              
+    "        </entity> \n"+
+    "    </document> \n"+
+    "</dataConfig> \n";
+  }  
+}