TOKEI(1)

💖 TOKEI — bestie edition 💖

okay so like. this is tokei(1), a User Commands situation, and it counts your code. fast. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

tokei – Count your code, quickly 🧮💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tokei [OPTIONS] [input]...

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

📍 POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

• [input]... — the path (or paths, plural, she's flexible 💁‍♀️) to the file or directory you want counted. if you just. don't say anything? it defaults to the current directory. main character energy of just showing up as you are.

🎀 OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

• -c, --columns <columns> — sets a strict column width for the output. lowkey strict. and heads up: this only works for terminal output, nowhere else.
• -e, --exclude <exclude> — ignores every file AND directory that matches the pattern. bye bestie 👋 not counted, not seen, not perceived.
• -f, --files — prints out statistics on individual files. one file at a time, we're getting granular.
• -i, --input <file_input> — pulls stats from a previous tokei run. you can hand it a file path, or literally the word "stdin" to read from stdin. recycling era ♻️✨
• --hidden — counts hidden files. yes, the sneaky ones. we see them now 👀
• -l, --languages — prints out all the supported languages and their extensions. it's giving encyclopedia but make it cute 📚
• --no-ignore — do NOT respect ignore files (.gitignore, .ignore, etc.). and bestie, this one is a package deal: it implies --no-ignore-parent, --no-ignore-dot, AND --no-ignore-vcs. all three, at once, no takebacks 💀
• --no-ignore-parent — doesn't respect ignore files (.gitignore, .ignore, etc.) in parent directories.
• --no-ignore-dot — doesn't respect .ignore and .tokeignore files, including the ones sitting in parent directories.
• --no-ignore-vcs — doesn't respect VCS ignore files (.gitignore, .hgignore, etc.), parent directories included.
• -o, --output <output> — outputs tokei in a specific format. pick your vibe.
• --streaming <streaming> — prints the records as (language, path, lines, blanks, code, comments) — either as simple lines or as Json, for batch processing. possible values: simple, json.
• -s, --sort <sort> — sorts languages based on a column. possible values: files, lines, blanks, code, comments.
• -r, --rsort <rsort> — reverse sorts languages based on a column. possible values: files, lines, blanks, code, comments.
• -t, --types <types> — filters output by language type, separated by a comma. like, i.e. -t=Rust,Markdown 🦀📝
• -C, --compact — does not print statistics about embedded languages. keeping it tight, keeping it minimal.
• -n, --num-format <num_format_style> — the format of your printed numbers. your choices are: plain (1234, and yes that's the default), commas (1,234), dots (1.234), or underscores (1_234). > ⚠️ cannot be used with --output. like, at all. pick a lane bestie. possible values: commas, dots, plain, underscores.
• -v, --verbose... — sets the log output level, and it stacks:
  1. shows unknown file extensions,
  2. reserved for future debugging 👀 (mysterious. iconic.),
  3. enables file level trace. > not recommended on multiple files, fr fr, it gets LOUD.
• -h, --help — prints help 🫶
• -V, --version — prints version 🏷️

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okay that's the whole thing, you're literally a tokei expert now, obsessed 💖✨

this was tokei(1) from User Commands, version vibes from November 2025 — slay, periodt, go count some code 🌈👑