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layout	status	published	title	author	author_login	author_email	author_url	wordpress_id	wordpress_url	date	categories	tags	comments
post	publish	true	Count the number of lines of code of your projects	Julien Lengrand-Lambert	jlengrand	julien@lengrand.fr	http://www.lengrand.fr	605	http://www.lengrand.fr/?p=605	2012-05-22 12:40:04.000000000 +02:00	tips	bash software development command lines

After having finished a project, I always like to know its actual size. It does not give any value to my work, but it is always fun to see :)

I found this simple command that will pop out the number of lines of code for a given file extension.

{% highlight bash %}

cat find . -name "*.py" | wc -l

{% endhighlight %}

You can also do it for a whole folder

{% highlight bash %}

find . -name "*.py" | xargs wc -l

{% endhighlight %}