Ever wonder just how many lines of code are in the project you’re working on? If you’re not already familiar with it, the appropriately named CLOC (Count Lines of Code) does just that. I don’t recall how I originally came across this tool, though I suspect it was the result of a google search on a day when curiosity got to me. CLOC is a command line tool, it’s simple to use, supports a ton of languages, and it’s configurable.

Example:

$ perl cloc-1.56.pl 'path to project'
     344 text files.
     333 unique files.                                          
     111 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.56  T=2.0 s (134.0 files/s, 13006.5 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                     files          blank        comment           code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Objective C                    124           4244           2400          13570
C/C++ Header                   144           1344           2186           2269
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                           268           5588           4586          15839
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you want to do deeper analysis, CLOC will output results directly to a sqlite database. You can download CLOC here.

Have other tools that you like to use for this type of code analysis? Please leave a comment below.