.TH GENERIC_COUNT 1 "23 March 2008" "generic_count" "generic_count"
.SH NAME
generic_count \- count physical lines of code, given a comment marker
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B generic_count
.I commentstart
[ \fB--f\fR \fIfile\fR ]
.I files...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This is a trivial/naive program for scripts used for sloccount toolsuite.
This manpage is used for all the scripts using \fBgeneric_count\fR (currently:
.B ada_count, 
.B awk_count, 
.B csh_count, 
.B erlang_count,
.B exp_count, 
.B lisp_count, 
.B makefile_count, 
.B ruby_count, 
.B sed_count, 
.B sh_count, 
.B tcl_count
)

.SH OPTIONS
.TP 12
.I commentstart
String that begins a comment (continuing until end-of-line).

.TP
.BI -f " file"
File with a list of files to count (if "-", read list from stdin). It can coexist with a list of files on command line.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
See sloccount(1) for additional details about SLOCCount suite.

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others)