Count the effective number of lines of code of a project

<p><pre><code> % cloc linux-3.2.1 37595 text files. 37127 unique files. 3995 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.53 T=355.0 s (93.8 files/s, 39819.0 lines/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C 16577 1555942 1573561 8036765 C/C++ Header 13614 316003 537441 1648074 Assembly 1252 41013 52412 252626 XML 142 2881 739 40365 make 1509 6296 6821 23851 Perl 41 3268 2592 15131 Bourne Shell 67 685 1552 3885 yacc 5 455 323 2979 Python 19 561 269 2605 C++ 1 208 57 1524 lex 5 204 237 1328 awk 8 90 79 714 Bourne Again Shell 30 75 56 450 HTML 2 58 0 378 NAnt scripts 1 93 0 372 Lisp 1 63 0 218 ASP 1 33 0 137 m4 1 15 1 84 XSLT 6 13 27 70 sed 1 0 3 30 vim script 1 3 12 27 Teamcenter def 1 0 2 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 33285 1927959 2176184 10031618 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------</code></pre>

It's one of those things where you get excited that there's something so accurate, but also a little fearful of how management could use it to incent badly written code.