Give 'Em Hell 🔥

Find and count em dashes (—), en dashes (–), and hyphens (-) in your codebase.

Installation

npm install -g give-em-hell

Or use directly with npx (no install needed):

npx give-em-hell

Usage

# Scan current directory
give-em-hell

# Scan specific directory
give-em-hell /path/to/your/project

# Use with npx
npx give-em-hell /path/to/your/project

Output Example

🔍 Scanning for dashes in: /Users/you/project

⏳ Files processed: 150 | Skipped: 12 | Errors: 0

📊 Dash Statistics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Em Dash (—): 253
En Dash (–): 23,452
Hyphen (-): 352
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Total: 24,057

📁 Files processed: 150
⏭️  Files skipped: 12
⏱️  Time taken: 2.34s

Features

• Memory Efficient: Streams files instead of loading them entirely into memory
• Smart Filtering: Automatically skips binary files and common non-code directories
• Progress Tracking: Real-time progress updates for large codebases
• Safe Defaults: 10MB file size limit and 50-level recursion depth limit
• Error Resilient: Continues processing even when individual files fail

What Gets Scanned

Included File Types

.js, .jsx, .ts, .tsx, .py, .java, .c, .cpp, .h, .hpp, .cs, .rb, .go, .rs, .swift, .kt, .php, .html, .css, .scss, .sass, .less, .vue, .svelte, .md, .txt, .json, .xml, .yaml, .yml

Excluded Directories

• node_modules
• .git
• dist
• build
• coverage
• .next
• .cache
• vendor
• bower_components
• Hidden directories (starting with .)

Why?

Typography matters! This tool helps you:

• Ensure consistency in dash usage across your codebase
• Find accidental em/en dash usage in code
• Audit documentation and comments for proper dash usage
• Have fun with typography statistics

License

MIT © mlot.ai

Resources

• 📺 Watch Demo Video
• 🌐 Visit MLoT Page
• 📦 View on GitHub
• 🔒 Privacy Policy

Publisher

Max's Lab of Things Visit mlot.ai

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome at github.com/incrediblecrab/give-em-hell