total-lines

A lightweight CLI tool to count lines of code in your project.

Installation

npm i -g total-lines

Usage

# Count lines in current directory
lines .

# Count lines in a specific path
lines /path/to/project

# Count with verbose output (shows individual files)
lines -v /path/to/project

# Show version
lines -V

# Show help
lines -h

Configuration

Create ~/.total-lines.json to customize:

{
  "suffix": [".ts", ".js", ".py", "go"],
  "exclude": ["**/node_modules", "**/dist", "**/*.md"]
}

View Current Config

# Show supported file suffixes
lines config suffix

# Show exclusion patterns
lines config exclude

# Show config file format
lines config

Features

• Multi-language support: 40+ file extensions supported by default
• Smart exclusion: Automatically excludes node_modules, dist, .git, etc.
• Configurable: Customize via config file
• Verbose mode: See per-file breakdown
• Detailed output: Lines grouped by file extension

License

MIT