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Uses old Rust 2015

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Used in 2 crates

MIT license

70KB
1K SLoC

2018-03-08: I saw a bunch of stars pop up and thought I should mention that tokei is smarter and more accurate so please give that a look and see if there are any wild discrepancies (mostly for your benefit but please let me know if so). Tokei is linked below but it's also rust so cargo install tokei is all you need. Also these benchmarks are quite old. I doubt cloc has changed but tokei probably has.

loc is a tool for counting lines of code. It's a rust implementation of cloc, but it's more than 100x faster. There's another rust code counting tool called tokei, loc is ~2-10x faster than tokei, depending on how many files are being counted.

I can count my 400k file src directory (thanks npm) in just under 7 seconds with loc, in a 1m14s with tokei, and I'm not even willing to try with cloc.

Counting just the dragonflybsd codebase (~9 million lines):

  • loc: 1.09 seconds
  • tokei: 5.3 seconds
  • cloc: 1 minute, 50 seconds

Installation

There are binaries available on the releases page, thanks to the wonderful rust-everywhere project and travisci. For anyone familiar with Rust there's cargo install loc. If you want to install Rust/Cargo, this is probably the easiest way: https://www.rustup.rs/.

Windows

loc should now compile on Windows, but you can also run it under Windows using linux emulation:

You can run loc on Windows 10 Anniversary Update build 14393 or later using the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Simply download the Linux distribution from the releases page, and run it in bash using a WSL-compatible path (e.g. /mnt/c/Users/Foo/Repo/ instead of C:\Users\Foo\Repo).

Usage

By default, loc will count lines of code in a target directory:

$ loc
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language             Files        Lines        Blank      Comment         Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Lua                      2       387088        24193       193544       169351
 Rust                     4         1172          111           31         1030
 C                        4          700           75          155          470
 Markdown                 2          249           39            0          210
 Bourne Shell             4          228           41           27          160
 Ada                      2           53           12            9           32
 Toml                     1           26            4            2           20
 Gherkin                  1           12            2            2            8
 OCaml                    1           13            4            6            3
 Ruby                     1            4            0            2            2
 Handlebars               1            4            0            2            2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total                   23       389549        24481       193780       171288
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You can also pass one or many targets for it to inspect

$ loc ci benches
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language             Files        Lines        Blank      Comment         Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Bourne Shell             4          228           41           27          160
 Rust                     1           17            4            0           13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total                    5          245           45           27          173
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To see stats for each file parsed, pass the --files flag:

$ loc --files src
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language             Files        Lines        Blank      Comment         Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Rust                     2         1028           88           29          911
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|src/lib.rs                         677           54           19          604
|src/main.rs                        351           34           10          307

By default, the columns will be sorted by Code counted in descending order. You can select a different column to sort using the --sort flag:

$ loc --files --sort Comment ci
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language             Files        Lines        Blank      Comment         Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Bourne Shell             4          228           41           27          160
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|ci/before_deploy.sh                 68           15           13           40
|ci/install.sh                       60           13            6           41
|ci/script.sh                        41            8            8           25
|ci/utils.sh                         59            5            0           54

loc can also be called with regexes to match and/or exclude files.

$ loc --include 'count'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language             Files        Lines        Blank      Comment         Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Rust                     2          144           23            2          119
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total                    2          144           23            2          119
loc --exclude 'sh$'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language             Files        Lines        Blank      Comment         Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Lua                      2       387088        24193       193544       169351
 Rust                     4         1172          111           31         1030
 C                        4          700           75          155          470
 Markdown                 2          275           38            0          237
 Ada                      2           53           12            9           32
 Toml                     1           26            4            2           20
 Gherkin                  1           12            2            2            8
 OCaml                    1           13            4            6            3
 Handlebars               1            4            0            2            2
 Ruby                     1            4            0            2            2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total                   19       389347        24439       193753       171155
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Known Issues

Fortran has a rule that comments must start with the first character of a line. I only check if it's the first non-whitespace character of a line. I don't know how often this is a problem in real code. I would think not often.

Comments inside string literals: You can get incorrect counts if your code has something like this:

x = "/* I haven't slept \
for 10 days \
because that would be too long \
*/";

loc counts the first line and last lines correctly as code, but the middle lines will be incorrectly counted as comments.

Ignored and hidden files:

By default, loc respects .gitignore/.ignore files, and ignores hidden files and directories. You can count disregard ignore files with loc -u, and include hidden files/dirs with loc -uu.

Supported Languages

  • ActionScript
  • Ada
  • Agda
  • AmbientTalk
  • ASP
  • ASP.NET
  • Assembly
  • Autoconf
  • Awk
  • Batch
  • Bourne Shell
  • C
  • C Shell
  • C/C++ Header
  • C#
  • C++
  • Clojure
  • CoffeeScript
  • ColdFusion
  • ColdFusionScript
  • Coq
  • CSS
  • CUDA
  • CUDA Header
  • D
  • Dart
  • DeviceTree
  • Erlang
  • Forth
  • FORTRAN Legacy
  • FORTRAN Modern
  • F# (Fsharp)
  • GLSL
  • Go
  • Groovy
  • Handlebars
  • Haskell
  • Hex
  • HTML
  • Idris
  • INI
  • Intel Hex
  • Isabelle
  • Jai
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • JSON
  • Jsx
  • Julia
  • Kotlin
  • Lean
  • Less
  • LinkerScript
  • Lisp
  • Lua
  • Make
  • Makefile
  • Markdown
  • Mustache
  • Nim
  • Nix
  • Objective-C
  • Objective-C++
  • OCaml
  • OpenCL
  • Oz
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Plain Text
  • Polly
  • PowerShell
  • Prolog
  • Protobuf
  • Pyret
  • Python
  • Qcl
  • QML
  • R
  • Razor
  • reStructuredText
  • Ruby
  • RubyHtml
  • Rust
  • SaltStack
  • Sass
  • Scala
  • SML
  • SQL
  • Stylus
  • Swift
  • Tcl
  • Terraform
  • TeX
  • Toml
  • TypeScript
  • Tsx
  • UnrealScript
  • VimL
  • Wolfram
  • XML
  • Yacc
  • YAML
  • Zig
  • Z Shell

Attributions

This project contains code from Tokei by Aaronepower and ripgrep by BurntSushi.

Contributors

Dependencies

~4.5–6.5MB
~106K SLoC