GENGO(1)

GENGO(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the gengo manual page, from the User Commands section, and I am SO excited to walk you through it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gengo — fetch language statistics for your source code 🦋

like. it looks at your code and tells you which languages are in there. main character energy fr.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gengo [OPTIONS] COMMAND

options first, command last. that's the order, no cap. 💅

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

🌈 COMMANDS

• git — analyze a git repository 👑

see gengo-git(1).

• directory — BETA analyze a directory 🍓

see gengo-directory(1).

yes it says BETA. she's still growing, be nice to her. 🙈

• help — print a general help message, or the help of the given subcommand(s) ✨

🎀 OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

• -l, --read-limit READ_LIMIT — the maximum number of bytes to read from each file.

this is useful for large files that can impact performance. like, if a file is enormous, this is your little seatbelt. 🫶

the format is in bytes. the default is 1 MiB.

[default: 1048576]

• -a, --all — report on all files, even if they are not detectable. 👀

this only applies to the pretty format, as machine-readable formats always include all files.

• -b, --breakdown — include detailed statistics for each language. 💖

this only applies to the pretty format, as machine-readable formats always include detailed statistics.

• --color COLOR — control when colors are displayed 🌈

[default: auto]

possible values:

• auto: automatically detect if colors are supported
• always: always use colors
• ansi: use only the 8 ANSI colors
• never: disable colors

• -F, --format FORMAT — the format to use for output 📝

[default: pretty]

possible values:

• pretty: output for humans
• json: JSON output

• -h, --help — print help (see a summary with -h) 🙋‍♀️
• -V, --version — print version ⭐

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

gengo-git(1), gengo-directory(1)

go read those too, they're iconic, iykyk 💅

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mwah 💋 this page is from August 2026, GENGO(1) era — stan forever, bestie 🎀✨💖