May 26, 2007 – 2:59am Count your SLOC: Source Lines of Code

Although this number may mean nothing at all, counting the total number of Source Lines of Code (SLOC) can be fun. Here is how you can tally up all the lines of PHP you have in a project from the command line:

find . -regex '.*\\.\\(php\\)' -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l

You can read more about this on wikipedia.