Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman)
Subject: Re: REQUEST --> source code line counter wanted
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.044159.23212@lsuc.on.ca>
Keywords: source code
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
References: <483@tci.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 04:41:59 GMT

In article <483@tci.UUCP> mitchell@tci.UUCP (Rob Mitchell) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	Yeah, I could probably create one pretty quickly, but what
>the heck?!!  Does anyone have a need little program to count the
>source code lines (minus comments, declaration headings, etc.) for
>unix systems??

Would
	grep -v "^#include .*\.h" $1 | /lib/cpp - | grep -v "^$" | wc -l

come close?

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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