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scc — Count lines of code. Written in Go. More information: <https://github.com/boyter/scc#usage>.

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Problem

How to use the scc command: Count lines of code. Written in Go. More information: <https://github.com/boyter/scc#usage>.

Solution

scc — Count lines of code. Written in Go. More information: <https://github.com/boyter/scc#usage>.

Print lines of code in the current directory:

scc

Print lines of code in the target directory:

scc {{path/to/directory}}

Display output for every file:

scc --by-file

Display output using a specific output format (defaults to tabular):

scc {{[-f|--format]}} {{tabular|wide|json|csv|cloc-yaml|html|html-table}}

Only count files with specific file extensions:

scc {{[-i|--include-ext]}} {{go,java,js}}

Exclude directories from being counted:

scc --exclude-dir {{.git,.hg}}

Display output and sort by column (defaults to by files):

scc {{[-s|--sort]}} {{files|name|lines|blanks|code|comments|complexity}}

Display help:

scc {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Print lines of code in the current directory

scc

Print lines of code in the target directory

scc {{path/to/directory}}

Display output for every file

scc --by-file

Display output using a specific output format (defaults to `tabular`)

scc {{[-f|--format]}} {{tabular|wide|json|csv|cloc-yaml|html|html-table}}

Only count files with specific file extensions

scc {{[-i|--include-ext]}} {{go,java,js}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/scc

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