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    $ sudo perl cloc-1.55.pl 2014 text files. 1907 unique files. 476 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.55 ---------------------------------- Language                     files ---------------------------------- C++                            517 C/C++ Header                   615 C                              170 Bourne Shell                    36 m4                              10 HTML                            55 Objective C++                    6 Perl                            10 yacc                             1 Python                          10 Objective C                      1 make                            22 DOS Batch                        5 Teamcenter def                   4 Lisp                             1 awk                              1 ---------------------------------- SUM:                          1464 ---------------------------------- 31052 neo/curl/configure

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Question 1: Why did you run cloc as root?

Question 2: Why does Doom 3 involve 33,717 lines of bash? That's a lot of bash. I realise it's used heavily for build scripts, but thirty three thousand lines seems excessive.

No clue about question 1 but 32,607 of those lines are all part of curl which seems to be distributed with the source code.

For question 2: It is essentially the configure script of the included curl library.

    $ wc -l neo/curl/configure re>

Question 1: Why did you run cloc as root?Hmmm, because of a really bad habit I need to break. ;)

If your habit is what I think it is, I have the opposite habit - I never use sudo until it tells me I've tried to do something I'm not allowed to do - even if I know it's not going to let me. Then I use "sudo !!"

> Then I use "sudo !!"Wow. For six years I've been doing "UP + CTRL^A + sudo + SPACE" instead. This is much better.

Off-topic:I use Ctrl-P Ctrl-A sudo <space> which is exactly the same number of keystrokes as "sudo !!" and a much more general solution in my opinion.

How does it matter?

Not even 1MM SLOC -- that alone is very impressive.

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