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Old 05-23-2007
How to count lines - ignoring blank lines and commented lines

What is the command to count lines in a files, but ignore blank lines and commented lines?

I have a file with 4 sections in it, and I want each section to be counted, not including the blank lines and comments... and then totalled at the end.

Here is an example of what I would like my output to look like:

##comment##
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6

6 lines

##comment##
line7
line8
line9
line10
line11
line12
line13
line14
line15
line16
line17

11 lines

##comment##
line18
line19
line20
line21
line22

5 lines

##comment##
line23
line24
line25
line26
line27
line28
line29
line30
line31
line32
line33
line34
line35

13 lines

35 total lines

Thank you in advance, for your help!
 

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OCAMLWC(1)						      General Commands Manual							OCAMLWC(1)

NAME
ocamlwc - count the lines of code and comments in OCaml sources SYNOPSIS
ocamlwc [options] [files] DESCRIPTION
ocamlwc is a program to count the number of lines of code and documentation in OCaml sources. It assumes its input to be lexically well- formed. If no files are given, then ocamlwc reads from stdin. The first column of the output lists the number of source lines of code, the second column the number of lines of documentation, and the third the respective filename. If ocamlwc acts on more than one file, then it prints a total in the last line. OPTIONS
-p Print percentage of documentation (in an additional column after the filename). -c Print only the code size, i.e., omit the documentation column. -e (everything) Do not skip headers. A header is the first comment in a file. -a (all) Do not skip generated files. foo.ml is a generated file if one of foo.mll, foo.mly, or foo.ml4 is amongst the given files. foo.mli is a generated file if foo.mly is amongst the given files. -h Print short usage information. AUTHOR
ocamlwc was written by Jean-Christophe Filliatre <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>. This manual page was written by Georg Neis <gn@oglaroon.de>. January 2, 2007 OCAMLWC(1)
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