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tokei – Count your code, quickly

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

tokei [FLAGS] [Options] [--] [input]...

Options

Flags (Without Parameters)

-C,  --compact

Do not print statistics about embedded languages.

-f,  --files

Will print out statistics on individual files.

-h,  --help

Prints help information.

--hidden

Count hidden files.

-l,  --languages

Prints out supported languages and their extensions.

--no-ignore

Don’t respect ignore files (.gitignore, .ignore, etc.). This implies --no-ignore-parent, --no-ignore-dot, --no-ignore-vcs.

--no-ignore-dot

Don’t respect .ignore and .tokeignore files, including those in parent directories.

--no-ignore-parent

Don’t respect ignore files (.gitignore, .ignore, etc.) in parent directories.

--no-ignore-vcs

Don’t respect VCS ignore files (.gitignore, .hgignore, etc.), including those in parent directories.

-V,  --version

Prints version information.

-v,  --verbose

Set log output level:

1:

to show unknown file extensions,  

2:

reserved for future debugging,

3:

enable file level trace. Not recommended on multiple files.

Options (with Parameters)

-c,  --columns columns

Sets a strict column width of the output, only available for terminal output.

-e,  --exclude exclude...

Ignore all files & directories matching the pattern.

-i,  --input file_input

Gives statistics from a previous tokei run. Can be given a file path, or stdin to read from stdin.

-n,  --num-format num_format_style

Format of printed numbers, i.e. plain (1234, default), commas (1,234), dots (1.234), or underscores (1_234). Cannot be used with --output. [possible values: commas, dots, plain, underscores]

-o,  --output output

Outputs Tokei in a specific format. [possible values: cbor, json, yaml]

-s,  --sort sort

Sort languages based on column [possible values: files, lines, blanks, code, comments]

-t,  --type types

Filters output by language type, seperated by a comma. i.e. -t=Rust,Markdown

Arguments

input...

The path(s) to the file or directory to be counted.

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December 2024