How to find out how many lines of code there are in an Xcode project?

Question

Is there a way to determine how many lines of code an Xcode project contains? I promise not to use such information for managerial measurement or employee benchmarking purp

Answer 1

line-counter is a good alternative. It's lighter than CLOC and much more powerful and easier to use than other commands.

A quick overview

This is how you get the tool

$ pip install line-counter

Use line command to get the file count and line count under current directory (recursively)

$ line
Search in /Users/Morgan/Documents/Example/
file count: 4
line count: 839

If you want more detail, just use line -d.

$ line -d
Search in /Users/Morgan/Documents/Example/
Dir A/file C.c                                             72
Dir A/file D.py                                           268
file A.py                                                 467
file B.c                                                   32
file count: 4
line count: 839

And the best part of this tool is, you can add .gitignore like configure file to it. You can set up rules to select or ignore what kind of files to count just like what you do in '.gitignore'. Yes, this tool is just invented to make knowing how many lines I have easier.

More description and usage is here: https://github.com/MorganZhang100/line-counter

I'm the author of this simple tool. Hope it can help somebody.