cloc Command Examples

Count, and compute differences of, lines of source code and comments. More information: https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc.

• Count all the lines of code in a directory:

cloc {{path/to/directory}}

• Count all the lines of code in a directory, displaying a progress bar during the counting process:

cloc --progress=1 {{path/to/directory}}

• Compare 2 directory structures and count the differences between them:

cloc --diff {{path/to/directory/one}} {{path/to/directory/two}}

• Ignore files that are ignored by VCS, such as files specified in .gitignore:

cloc --vcs git {{path/to/directory}}

• Count all the lines of code in a directory, displaying the results for each file instead of each language:

cloc --by-file {{path/to/directory}}