Splik

Splik (Simple Language Identifier Kit) is a small CLI tool for identifying the languages used in a project. It has similar capabilities to onefetch, but it has more focused features and does not require the directory to be a git project.

Splik can:

• Calculate the total bytes, lines, and files for all recognized programming language files within a directory
• Display the list of languages and their information sorted from most used to least
• List all files in a directory that are of a given programming language
• Identify project root directory using common indicators (.git, node_modules, Cargo.toml, etc.)

Installation

Splik is available on all platforms through Cargo:

cargo install splik

Usage

To run splik on the current directory, simply run splik:

splik

The list of available options is as follows:

• output [human-readable | json | yaml] (= human-readable)
  • The output format. The default is human readable, but other formats can be specified for scripts to easily parse.
• include-dotfiles [bool] (= false)
  • Whether to not ignore files and directories that start with a dot (.). This is off by default to ignore things like .vscode, .git, etc.
• find [string | null] (= null)
  • Find all files of a given language instead of listing all languages. This will print absolute paths to all files of the given programming language, case-insensitive.
• find-root [boolean] (= false)
  • Find and print the project root directory using common indicators (.git, Cargo.toml, node_modules).
• exclude [string[]] (= [])
  • A list of languages to exclude from both the count and display.
• include [string[]] (= [])
  • A list of file / directory names that are ignored by default (node_modules, target, etc.) to include in the count and display.
• here [boolean] (= false)
  • Do not search for a root directory; Run splik on the current directory.

Reference

Splik recognizes the following languages/extensions:

Limitations

Splik is limited in a few ways:

• The language of a file is determined purely by its extension/name. The actual contents of the file are not analyzed. This can lead to inaccuracies - i.e., theres nothing stopping you from renaming main.c to main.py, and splik will think it's a Python file.
• Splik operates off of a known list of languages, meaning any new languages need to be manually contributed to splik itself before it can be recognized. Once a new language is added, all users of the tool will need to update splik to be able to recognize that language.