Command-line tool

cloc

brew/cloc

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Statistics utility to count lines of code programming-language cloc count-lines

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Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id AlDanial.Cloc -e
scoop install cloc

macOS

brew install cloc

Linux

brew install cloc

Count all the lines of code in a directory

cloc path/to/directory

Compare 2 directory structures and count the differences between them

cloc --diff path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2

Ignore files that are ignored by VCS, such as files specified in `.gitignore`

cloc --vcs git path/to/directory

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