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cloc - statistics utility to count lines of code

Now the manpage mentions that it can be used to count lines of code of a tarball

cloc perl-5.10.0.tar.gz

Now a debian package is just like a compressed tarball. Is there a way to use cloc.

I tried :-

[$] cloc cloc_1.60-1.1_all.deb 
 0 text files.
 0 unique files. 
 1 file ignored.

The output isn't correct. I tried to see how many files are in the debian package and saw :-

[$] dpkg -L cloc 
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/cloc.1.gz
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/cloc
/usr/share/doc/cloc/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/cloc/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/cloc/copyright
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/cloc

So either it's a bug in cloc or I didn't apply it correctly. For the record, I have downloaded the debian package of cloc to use as an example (as it's small).

[$] ls -lh cloc_1.60-1.1_all.deb 
-rw-r--r-- 1 shirish shirish 88K Jul 24 2015 cloc_1.60-1.1_all.deb

Look forward for answers.

You need to run cloc on the source package, not on the binary package — cloc_1.60-1.1_all.deb is the binary package.

This works:

dget -d http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cloc/cloc_1.60-1.1.dsc
cloc cloc_1.60.orig.tar.gz

and shows

 12 text files.
 7 unique files. 
 9 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60 T=0.05 s (57.3 files/s, 176957.8 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Perl 2 666 978 7477
make 1 26 35 75
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 3 692 1013 7552
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

dget downloads the source package via the given descriptor, and -d tells it not to extract the source. You'll find dget in the devscripts package.

Actually it is possible to count code directly with the .deb file--assuming the .deb file contains source code--using cloc's --extract-with switch:

cloc --extract-with='dpkg-deb -x >FILE< .' ../cloc_1.60-1_all.deb 
 2 text files.
 2 unique files. 
 1 file ignored.

https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.66 T=0.09 s (11.3 files/s, 102181.3 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Perl 1 661 966 7437
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

That's kind of clunky though. I will add native support for .deb files in the next release of cloc (to be 1.68).

Also note the difference in counts between the tarball and the .deb: the tarball contains the full source distribution while the latter only has the final tool to be installed. Since the cloc is all source code, it can be counted; if it were compiled, counting the .deb wouldn't work. This trick won't work with most .deb files as most of them (I'm guessing) contain compiled executables.