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1 .TH cline 1 "2026-07-05" "cline 1.6.0" "cline Manual" |
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2 .SH NAME |
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3 cline \- count line terminator characters in files |
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4 .SH SYNOPSIS |
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5 .B cline |
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6 .RI [ Options ] |
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7 .RI [ Directories... ] |
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8 .SH DESCRIPTION |
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9 .B cline |
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10 counts the line terminator characters |
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11 .RB ( \en ) |
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12 within all files in the specified directories. |
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13 |
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14 If no directory is specified, |
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15 .B cline |
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16 scans the current directory. |
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17 .SH OPTIONS |
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18 .TP |
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19 .BI \-b " level" |
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20 Set the binary file heuristics level. The default is |
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21 .BR medium . |
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22 Valid levels are: |
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23 .BR ignore , |
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24 .BR low , |
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25 .BR medium , |
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26 and |
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27 .BR high . |
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28 The heuristics use the ratio of non-printable characters after seeing |
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29 enough printable characters in the file (see |
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30 .MR isprint 3 ). |
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31 The higher the detection level, the |
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32 more printable characters the algorithm wants to see before making a decision. |
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33 |
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34 Note that some Unicode files with a high ratio of non-printable |
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35 characters from the perspective of |
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36 .MR isprint 3 , |
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37 might be misdetected by this algorithm as binary files. |
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38 .TP |
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39 .B \-c |
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40 Count non-whitespace characters instead of lines. |
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41 .TP |
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42 .B \-d |
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43 Report only directory sums. |
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44 .TP |
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45 .BI \-D " path" |
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46 Exclude the directory at the specified |
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47 .IR path . |
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48 A path can be relative or absolute but must always contain at least one path |
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49 separator. For example, if you want to exclude the top-level |
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50 .IR target |
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51 directory in a project of yours, use |
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52 .BI \-D " ./target" |
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53 to specify a path relative to your current directory. If you just write |
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54 .BI \-D " target" |
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55 you would exclude |
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56 .IR all |
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57 directories with that name in an recursive search with the |
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58 .BR -r |
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59 option. |
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60 This option may be used multiple times. |
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61 .TP |
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62 .BI \-D " name" |
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63 Exclude all directories with the given |
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64 .IR name . |
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65 This option may be used multiple times. |
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66 .TP |
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67 .BI \-E " pattern" |
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68 Exclude any line matching the regular expression |
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69 .IR pattern . |
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70 This option may be used multiple times. |
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71 .TP |
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72 .BI \-e " start end" |
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73 Exclude lines between the regular expressions |
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74 .I start |
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75 and |
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76 .IR end . |
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77 The first and the last line are only excluded when they completely match the |
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78 .IR start " or " end |
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79 pattern, respectively. |
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80 Similarly, when used with the |
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81 .BR \-c |
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82 option, characters within a line before |
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83 .IR start |
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84 matches and after |
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85 .IR end |
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86 matches are still counted. |
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87 This option may be used multiple times. |
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88 .TP |
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89 .BR \-h ", " \-\-help |
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90 Print help text and exit. |
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91 .TP |
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92 .B \-i |
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93 Print individual sums per file extension. |
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94 This option cannot be used together with |
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95 .BR \-V . |
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96 .TP |
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97 .B \-m |
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98 Print information about matching files only. |
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99 .TP |
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100 .BI \-s " suffixes" |
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101 Only count files with these suffixes. |
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102 Suffixes are separated by commas. |
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103 .TP |
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104 .BI \-S " suffixes" |
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105 Count any file except those with these suffixes. |
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106 Suffixes are separated by commas. |
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107 .TP |
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108 .BR \-r ", " \-R |
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109 Scan subdirectories recursively. |
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110 .TP |
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111 .BR \-v ", " \-\-version |
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112 Print version information. |
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113 .TP |
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114 .B \-V |
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115 Turn verbose output off and print the result only. |
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116 .SH SHORTCUTS |
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117 .TP |
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118 .B \-\-exclude\-cstyle\-comments |
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119 Equivalent to: |
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120 .BR "\-E '\es*//'" " " "\-e '\es*/\e*' '\e*/\es*'" |
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121 .TP |
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122 .B \-\-exclude\-blank\-lines |
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123 Equivalent to: |
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124 .BR "\-E '^\es*$'" |
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125 .SH EXAMPLES |
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126 .TP |
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127 .B cline \-rms .c,.h \-\-exclude\-cstyle\-comments |
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128 Recursively count matching |
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129 .I .c |
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130 and |
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131 .I .h |
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132 files, print matching files only, and exclude C-style comments. |
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133 .TP |
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134 .B cline \-Vc src |
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135 Print only the total number of non-whitespace characters in |
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136 .IR src . |
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137 .TP |
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138 .B cline \-rms .rs \-D ./target |
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139 Recursively count matching Rust source files starting with the current |
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140 directory, but skip the target directory. Print only matching files. |
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141 .TP |
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142 .B cline \-rb high -d -D .git |
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143 Recursively count all non-binary files with a high binary file detection |
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144 heuristic. Report only sums per directory and skip all directories with the |
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145 name |
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146 .IR .git . |
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147 .SH SEE ALSO |
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148 .UR https://uap-core.de/man/cline.html |
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149 https://uap-core.de/man/cline.html |
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150 .UE |
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151 |
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152 .UR https://uap-core.de/hg/cline |
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153 https://uap-core.de/hg/cline |
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154 .UE |
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155 |
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156 .UR https://sourceforge.net/projects/cline/ |
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157 https://sourceforge.net/projects/cline/ |
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158 .UE |
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159 .SH AUTHOR |
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160 Copyright 2018 Mike Becker. |