Have you ever had the nead to count the lines of code in a project or a folder? If you did, or want to, cloc is a neat utility that can help with just that.
As per it’s description on the GitHub page, “cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages”. It displays a summary of file types and counted files, and then it breaks down a list of lines of code per language.
Here’s the output from my bash-config project:
~/Git/bash-config $ cloc .
45 text files.
43 unique files.
4 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.80 T=0.29 s (146.6 files/s, 10151.3 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Bourne Again Shell 38 355 440 1525
Bourne Shell 2 41 32 276
Markdown 2 52 0 187
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SUM: 42 448 472 1988
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And here’s a view of a more complex project with multiple languages:
346 text files.
338 unique files.
110 files ignored.
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.80 T=0.75 s (319.4 files/s, 45153.6 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Bourne Shell 102 3417 3753 14810
Bourne Again Shell 28 1209 1040 5480
XML 3 88 13 713
DOS Batch 6 90 24 448
Markdown 5 122 0 411
Visual Basic 5 56 31 331
ERB 66 69 0 322
HTML 4 12 62 182
SQL 10 65 203 166
Korn Shell 2 33 65 115
Velocity Template Language 1 0 0 114
Python 3 18 45 59
CSS 1 1 1 24
Java 1 3 3 22
Ruby 1 6 5 11
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SUM: 238 5189 5245 23208
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cloc is available on many distros default repo, as well as npm install. To install it use:
sudo apt install cloc # Debian, Ubuntu
sudo yum install cloc # Red Hat, Fedora
sudo dnf install cloc # Fedora 22 or later
sudo pacman -S cloc # Arch
sudo emerge -av dev-util/cloc # Gentoo https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-util/cloc
sudo apk add cloc # Alpine Linux
sudo pkg install cloc # FreeBSD
sudo port install cloc # Mac OS X with MacPorts
brew install cloc # Mac OS X with Homebrew
choco install cloc # Windows with Chocolatey
scoop install cloc # Windows with Scoop
