{"id":1922,"date":"2010-05-18T02:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2010-05-18T02:25:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T06:25:50","slug":"think-youre-in-a-big-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/think-youre-in-a-big-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Think you’re in a big project?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I became curious on how many lines of code a huge open source project I contribute to has on what languages. I found a tool called “cloc” on sourceforge, check out the results and I dare you to think again if you think you’re in a big project.
\n
\n[bash]
\n$ cloc .
\n 11642 text files.
\n 11383 unique files.
\n 42549 files ignored.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51 T=193.0 s (56.3 files\/s, 11577.2 lines\/s)
\n——————————————————————————–
\nLanguage files blank comment code
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\nXML 205 3152 4552 34709
\nC++ 62 2923 3738 16397
\nC\/C++ Header 103 1874 4249 6685
\nC 17 842 729 2498
\nXSD 15 132 124 1358
\nPerl 6 301 752 1323
\nObjective C 10 249 237 798
\nDOS Batch 19 118 65 704
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\nmake 14 206 355 623
\nBourne Shell 23 154 172 601
\nXSLT 4 134 298 553
\nBourne Again Shell 12 69 141 426
\nPython 9 126 79 416
\nJavascript 7 42 21 188
\nIDL 1 14 0 52
\nTeamcenter def 1 0 0 9
\n——————————————————————————–
\nSUM: 10861 344064 502391 1387949
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\n[\/bash]<\/p>\n

If you want to count lines of code for your projects give cloc a try<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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