Count total number of lines in an Xcode project

Question

What is the way to count total number of lines in an Xcode Project? I can see number of lines in an individual file but I need a sum up of all the lines in a project.

Answer 1

A lightweight solution if you're using Homebrew (and a fan of the terminal) is the command-line program 'Cloc' (count lines of code). It breaks down the output for languages used in your project and gives you other useful information.

Cloc

$ brew install cloc 
$ cd path/to/project/ 
$ cloc .

Answer 2

If you don't want to pay $4.99 for a one time use, and you don't want to bother with HomeBrew. While it does count the empty lines between your code, you can do this:

1. Open Terminal
2. cd to your Xcode project
3. Execute the following when inside your target project:

find . -name "*.swift" -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

If you want to exclude pods:

find . -path ./Pods -prune -o -name "*.swift" -print0 ! -name "/Pods" | xargs -0 wc -l

If your project has objective c and swift:

find . -type d \( -path ./Pods -o -path ./Vendor \) -prune -o \( -iname \*.m -o -iname \*.mm -o -iname \*.h -o -iname \*.swift \) -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

Answer 3

Check out: CLOC

ClOC counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code.

To use CLOC (Count Lines Of Code) for count number of lines in a project. Download the the CLOC .pl file and write following line in terminal:

perl ./DirectoryWhereClockFileIS/cloc-1.56.pl ./YourDirectoryWhereYourSourcesAre

It will show you results like:

Answer 4

There is an app on the App Store called Xcode Statistics. (Or something like that). It does what you want.

A word of warning though. The number of lines in a project has little to no relation to the quality or complexity of that project.

Answer 5

You can use this script to do that :)

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
    Count number of lines of code in a projects 
    directory.

    Credits to https://github.com/0RaMsY0
"""

import os
import argparse

def count_lines(path: str, code_extension: str) -> int:
    FOLDERS = []
    FILES = []
    PATHS = [path]
    TOTAL_LINES = 0
    STOP_LOOP = False

    while STOP_LOOP != True:
        for i in PATHS:
            for _ in os.listdir(i):
                if _.endswith(f".{code_extension}"):
                    FILES.append(f"{i}/{_}")
                else:
                    if os.path.isdir(f"{i}/{_}"):
                        PATHS.append(f"{i}/{_}")
        
        STOP_LOOP = True
    
    for FILE in FILES:
        TOTAL_LINES += len(open(FILE, "r").readlines())
    
    return TOTAL_LINES



if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("-p", "--path", help="Path to count code numbers")
    parser.add_argument("-ex", "--extension", help="Code extenstion e.g py js ...")
    
    args = parser.parse_args()

    PATH = args.path
    CODE_EXTENSION = args.extension

    TOTAL_LINES = count_lines(PATH, code_extension=CODE_EXTENSION)

    print(TOTAL_LINES)

Usage:

you need to pass in two flags one for your project's path and the other is the extension of the source code for example it can be py for python, js for javascript etc...

python countlines.py -p "/path/to/project" -ex py 

Warning: Do not add a '.' to the start of the extension or it will not work