LoC script written in Ruby

Counts and prints out the non empty lines of code used by files in a directory.

Command Line Interface

Option	Short	Explanation
--filter	-f	File extension filter. (e.g. "hpp cpp lua asm")
--exclude	-e	Directories to exclude. (e.g. "ext .vs .git")
--comment	-c	Flag to ignore comments while counting lines
--help	-h	Prints help text.

Example usages

Count lines of code in all .cpp and .hpp files in the ..\root\directory directory. Skip files in ..\root\directory\ext\* and ..\root\directory\.vs\*.

>ruby loc.rb -f "cpp hpp" -e "ext .vs" ..\root\directory

Count all non comment lines in all files in the current directory.

>ruby loc.rb -c

Example output

>ruby loc.rb -f "c h" -e "ext example .git .vs" ..\..\c\deque

src/deque.c     161
src/test.c       94
include/deque.h  24
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total           279

Notes

Script was made mainly for getting a feel for Ruby. Feel free to suggest changes!
Currently only the following languages are supported for comment exclusion: C, C++, C#, Lua, Ruby, Python

License