In a GitHub repository you can see “language statistics”, which displays the percentage of the project that’s written in a language. It doesn’t, however, display how many lines of code the project consists of. Often, I want to quickly get an impression of the scale and complexity of a project, and the count of lines … Read more
How would I count the total number of lines present in all the files in a git repository? git ls-files gives me a list of files tracked by git. I’m looking for a command to cat all those files. Something like git ls-files | [cat all these files] | wc -l 16 s 16 xargs … Read more
How do I get a line count of a large file in the most memory- and time-efficient manner? def file_len(filename): with open(filename) as f: for i, _ in enumerate(f): pass return i + 1 4 44
