# jqlang/jq SLOC report

> jqlang/jq: 24,285 code lines at commit 94b00aa807a5, counted with tokei-14.0.0 on 2026-10-22. Saved result 365f591e681aae2b577d73c21965fb7e42945d64f4fc3321bc41ba8be2da3a5a.

jqlang/jq has 24,285 source lines of code out of 31,162 total lines across 79 files, counted from the master ref at commit 94b00aa807a5 by the OctoCounts tokei engine on 2026-10-22. The report is cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so recounting the same revision returns exactly these numbers.

OctoCounts produced this report by resolving jqlang/jq to commit 94b00aa807a5, downloading the repository source archive, and counting every source file with tokei, the open-source line counter written in Rust. The table below breaks the count down by programming language into files, total lines, code lines, comment lines, and blank lines, so the figures can be compared across languages and projects. Results are cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so counting the same revision again reproduces exactly these numbers.

## Repository size insights

This is a medium-sized codebase by counted code lines. Code represents 77.9% of all lines, comments represent 11.8%, and the repository averages 307 code lines per file. C accounts for 83.7% of counted code.

| Language | Files | Lines | Code | Comments | Blanks |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| C | 22 | 24,869 | 20,317 | 2,139 | 2,413 |
| C Header | 22 | 2,384 | 1,862 | 207 | 315 |
| Happy | 1 | 971 | 900 | 0 | 71 |
| M4 | 8 | 858 | 438 | 341 | 79 |
| jq | 1 | 241 | 208 | 20 | 13 |
| Automake | 1 | 273 | 183 | 38 | 52 |
| Lex | 1 | 191 | 157 | 9 | 25 |
| Shell | 3 | 162 | 110 | 19 | 33 |
| RPM Specfile | 1 | 69 | 51 | 6 | 12 |
| Dockerfile | 1 | 34 | 29 | 0 | 5 |
| Python | 1 | 31 | 20 | 2 | 9 |
| Autoconf | 1 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Markdown | 3 | 853 | 0 | 669 | 184 |
| Plain Text | 13 | 215 | 0 | 215 | 0 |

Top language (C 83.7%). Generated at 2026-10-22T05:41:16.862764031Z. Canonical report: https://octocounts.com/github/jqlang/jq/commit/94b00aa807a51a8f97bc9345c03e32982e344678?reportId=365f591e681aae2b577d73c21965fb7e42945d64f4fc3321bc41ba8be2da3a5a&analysis=%7B%22profile%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22ignoredDirs%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22includeDocs%22%3Afalse%2C%22includeTests%22%3Afalse%2C%22ignoredLanguages%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22includeGenerated%22%3Afalse%7D

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## Report FAQ

### How many lines of code does jqlang/jq have?

jqlang/jq has 31,162 total lines, including 24,285 code lines, 3,665 comment lines, and 3,212 blank lines.

### How was the jqlang/jq line count measured?

OctoCounts resolved the public GitHub repository to commit 94b00aa807a5, downloaded the source archive, counted it with tokei, and cached the report by commit, tokei version, and analysis options.

### What commit was counted for jqlang/jq?

This OctoCounts report was generated from master at commit 94b00aa807a5 on 2026-10-22T05:41:16.862764031Z.

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